| Richardson (Major, John) - 1847 - Страниц: 240
...nominated to some public appointment, in the Gazette which was expected shortly to be published. But, " Oh ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay : I never lov'da tree or flower, But t'wae the first to fade away : " I never lov'da dear gazelle, To soothe... | |
| Harriet Elizabeth Mozley - 1848 - Страниц: 374
...see him, for I would not look up, I was reading that beautiful passage for the first time — ' 'Twas ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.' So it is with him ; but how much worse than with Isabella ! Yet I do not blame him so much ; I know... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1849 - Страниц: 822
...hopes decay ; " I never lov'da tree or flow'r, " But 'twas the first to fade away. " I never nurs'da dear gazelle, " To glad me with its soft black eye, " But when it caine to know me well, " And love me, it was sure to die ! " Now too — the joy most like divine "... | |
| 1863 - Страниц: 896
...the tomb of the resurrection ? HOME-SICKNESS AND THE HOMEWABD WAY. BY GOTTLIEB GRACBART. III. Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never loved a dear gazelle. To glad me with iu soft black eye, But when it carne to know me well, And love... | |
| 1855 - Страниц: 494
...to-night I I knew, I knexv it could not last — 'Twas bright, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past ! Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nurs'da dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye. But when it came to know me well, And love... | |
| 1835 - Страниц: 606
...lines : — " Oh : ever thns from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never nurst a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. ' I never nurs'da dear gazelle To glad me with its bright black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love... | |
| George Coggeshall - 1851 - Страниц: 250
...had but just elapsed since the decease of my beloved wife, and I began sensibly to feel that " 'Twas ever thus ; from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a plant or flower But it was first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To soothe me with its... | |
| 1851 - Страниц: 390
...way a favourite; and I never look upon their evanescent beauties without exclaiming, with Moore, * fc I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away." Annuals are for the most part sown so thickly in the open border, that the plants smother each other... | |
| baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1851 - Страниц: 1010
...contemplating the same chimera, which are not six of one and half-a-dozen of the other : we all know that we " Never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away i." but my disappointments have extended still further, for in the " sweet South,'' though I used to devote... | |
| 1851 - Страниц: 582
...follows : — " I knew, 1 knew it could not last — 'Twos bright, 'twas heav'nly, but 'tis pastl Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never lov'da tree or flow'r But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nurs'da dear gazelle To glad me with... | |
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