| James Montgomery - 1835 - 360 pages
...their distress, THE WIDOW and THE FATHERLESS. A TALE WITHOUT A NAME. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SCOTT'S Marmiont canto vi. PART I. HE had no friend on earth but thee... | |
| 1836 - 596 pages
...of death fallen upon him. In this unfortunate dilemma, a woman— " Oh ! woman in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A minist'ring angel then art thou." An actress of the company felt compassion for the desolate condition,... | |
| 1837 - 808 pages
...constitution and the gentle assiduities of an affectionate wife — " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ! When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel, then art mon !" — restored him to the stage. Soon after this he was induced,... | |
| John William Carleton - 1851 - 726 pages
...without by expressions of concern and pity for the sufferer within. " Oh woman ! in oar honn of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." says the bard, and so say I ; at least so I said cordially on that sunny... | |
| James Montgomery - 1841 - 358 pages
...distress, THE WIDOW and the FATHERLESS. 1830. A TALE WITHOUT A NAME. " O woman ! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SCOTT'* Marmion, canto vi. PART I. HE had no friend on earth but thee... | |
| 1842 - 482 pages
...did I see a more beautiful exemplification of the Poet's line»: "Oh, woman, in your hours of esse, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou." With a patient energy she administered to his every want, and with a gentle... | |
| 1878 - 496 pages
...hope itself be dead, And cheer with angel smile the sufferer's head." " 0 woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Community at East Griustead consisted of forty-one Sisters, seventyeight... | |
| Blanchard Jerrold - 1848 - 320 pages
...VIII. MISS MATTJRIN'S VISIT, AND THE CONFUSION OF HENRY 'GOSP1TCH. " 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, * * * * When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SIB WAITER SCOTT. WEARY and fevered with the long unrest of a sleepless... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 626 pages
...made in Marmum, when Clare brings water to the wounded knight : ' О WOMAN ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, Л ministering angel thou ! ' 530 Meister Karl's Sketch -Book. [November, • 'Oh, undoubtedly,' rejoined... | |
| 1852 - 746 pages
...housekeeper, and plunged head foremost into the tub of milk.* " O woman ! in our hours of ease, I'ncertain, coy, and hard to please, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel, thou !" Yes, a ministering angel may be often found even in the hard, withered... | |
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