 | Electronic journals - 1851 - 582 pages
...as 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... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 498 pages
...and that the negotiation for the projected voyage to the Indies was finally at an end. CHAPTER VIII. "Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour I've seen my...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away." Italia Rookh. THE season had now advanced to the first days of February, and, in that low latitude,... | |
 | Youth - 1853 - 308 pages
...respect to this castle-building and castle-falling, I will not say, in the language of Moore— " O, ever thus from, childhood's hour, IVe seen my fondest...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away." I'll not say that. But I will say, if you will pardon the parody (and, while you have your hand in,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 498 pages
...at an end. CHAPTER VIII. "Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour 1 've seen my fondest hopes deeay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away." Lalla Rookk. THE season had now advanced to the first days of February, and, in that low latitude,... | |
 | Literature - 1853 - 436 pages
...Napoleon's fishes, Rhody, at Longwood ?" "Ma'am?" " And the young gazelle, Rhody, the young gazelle ? ' 0 ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never lov'da tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nurs'da dear gazelle.. ..' How does... | |
 | Francis Channing Woodworth - Birds - 1854 - 346 pages
...many times, though I hope I have not thought of them in a complaining and fault-finding spirit: "O ever thus from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest...flower, But 'twas the first to fade away; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft, blue eye, I But when it came to know me well, And... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1854 - 402 pages
...EARTHLY BLISS. I KNEW, I knew it could not last — 'Twas bright, 'twas heave. ily, but 'tis past ! Ob ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ! I never lov'da tree or flower, Bat 'twas the first to fade away. I never nuri'da dear gazelle, To glad me with... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1856 - 424 pages
...part — to-night ! " I knew, I knew it could not last — " 'T was bright, 't was heavenly, but 't is past ! " Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, "...hopes decay ; " I never loved a tree or flower, " But 't was the first to fade away. " I never nurs'da dear gazelle, " To glad me with its soft black eye,... | |
 | Emil Kade - English language - 1856 - 280 pages
...er ift tmmer ber lefcte ber ge^t. Fancy, as it is first to ripen, it is also first to fade. M. — I never loved a tree or flower, but 'twas the first to fade away. Mr. — I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...THOMAS MOORE. 1780-1852. Lalla Bookh. The Fire- Worshippers. O, ever thus from childhood's hour I 've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 't was the first to fade away. The Light of the Harem. Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension... | |
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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,... 
