 Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle. To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me,...  Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance - Side 160af Thomas Moore - 1817 - 335 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas Westwood - 1914 - 224 sider
...Swiveller's pathos on that subject ? " I never nursed a dear gazelle to glad me with its soft brown eye, but when it came to know me well, and love me, it was sure to go and marry a market gardener." Forgive this brief and wretched letter. I will write more at length... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1917 - 856 sider
...fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye,...know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew, To see thee, hear thee, call thee mine,... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 sider
...a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'da dear gazelle, To glad me witli its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die. The Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 sider
..."Jowett's little garden." Claimed for WILLIAM LORT MANSEL and MR. HORHY. GAZELLE ££ I never nursed a V. Sc. 5. L. 52. » Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright. Henry VI. Pt marry a marketgardener. DICKENS — Old Curiosity Shop. Ch. LVT. Saying of Dick SwiveUer. 23 (See also... | |
 | David Herbert Lawrence, Mary Louisa Skinner - 1924 - 404 sider
...the great sea more and more — " Again a sudden and commanding yell from Lennie. "I never loved a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But, when it came to know me well And love me — " Here the twins, as if hypnotized, howled out — " — it was sure to die." They kept up this... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1925 - 1118 sider
...fondest hopes decay; 1 never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me/it was sure to die, Now, too. the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew, To see thee,... | |
 | Octavius William Andrews - 1927 - 484 sider
...always called it) he loved it dearly, but like the one described by Moore : — " I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye But...came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die ! " it too fell sick and, alas, died. It had eaten a number of brass screws, and the only treatment... | |
 | 1883 - 864 sider
...flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nurs'da dear gazelle To glad me with its soft dark eye, But when it came to know me well. And love me, it was sure to die." " Tell me about ' dear gazelles,' " Angie whispered, with tears still in his voice ; and he was somewhat... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 sider
...fondest hopes decay : I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye,...to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.' MOORE. ' Quis quod amat metitur opus, celeremque volatum Inter Serena Temporis, Cum paradisiacae plumas... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1884 - 906 sider
...and found a watery grave in a neighbour's water butt !) Well did the poet sing — " I never nursed a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But...to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die." I am not at all sure but what such disappointments as these — for they are real though small —... | |
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