 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...  Uncle Oliver's Travels: Persia - Page 241by John Kitto - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Westwood - English letters - 1914 - 224 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1917 - 856 pages
...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,...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, hear thee, call thee... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pages
...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 pages
..."Jowett's little garden." Claimed for WILLIAM LORT MANSEL and MR. HORHY. GAZELLE ££ I never nursed ctV. 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 - Australia - 1924 - 404 pages
...loved 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 - Literary Criticism - 1925 - 1118 pages
...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 - Oceania - 1927 - 484 pages
...he 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...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 pages
...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) - English literature - 1842 - 578 pages
...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 pages
...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,...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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