 | 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... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1851 - 1010 pages
...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... | |
 | Cam river - 1851 - 380 pages
...Gammer Gurtou. ti)US. Он ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1854 - 316 pages
...to-night ! " I knew, I knew it could not last — " 'Twas bright, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past ! " Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, '•'I've seen...tree or 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... | |
 | Francis Channing Woodworth - 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...tree or 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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,... 
