...save the sweet and consolatory dictates of the purest pity and compassion for suffering humanity. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Nothing could exceed the tender and unwearied care, with which she nursed him night and day, assisted...

...appointed burden I Compare the beautifully delicate, but still kindred lines of Sir Walter Scott — ' O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! ' Or the more passionate breathings of poor Zuleika's tenderness, in the verses of Lord Byron : '...

...injured Clara alone remains — he cries for water to slake his thirst, on which the poet exclaims: * O, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — " P. 362. And Clara comes to his relief. He learns from her the fate of Constance — his anguish...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Pf blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !"— {5, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring die brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's...

...pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured, — " Is there none, Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed...ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents-said, When, with the baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran : Forgot were hatred,...

...assiduity towards them, that it brought forcibly to my recollection that beautiful passage in Marmion. O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Having discharged my djity at the hospital, and taken a list of the corps and numbers of the wounded,...

...assiduity towards them, that it brought forcibly to my recollection that beautiful passage in Marmion. O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel then. ceeded to visit a house further to the left, which was occupied by the French soldiery. In general...

...all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup Of blessed water from the spring, To »lake my dying thirst!" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease,...quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brou , A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the baron's...

...best gift to man : — . " Oh, woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; 136 And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " M AUMION. That Adam might fully appreciate the value of such a blessing, and the society of his...

...often stopt, by fond regret inclin'd, To "cast one longing lingering look behind." STANZAS ON WOMAN. " O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made." WAITER SCOTT, HAST thou not mark'd the smiling deep AH tranquil and serene ; When every zephyr seem'd...