 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,...  Standard Novels - Page 501844Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 828 pages
...flower but 't was 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 marry a market-gardener." Overpowered by these reflections, Mr. Swiveller stopped short at the clients'... | |
 | Confessions - 1846 - 418 pages
...beautiful lines of the bard " I nerer nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, Bat when it came to know me well, And love me — it was sore to die ! Thou too"— " But no, no ! that misery will surely be spared me." I never shall forget... | |
 | Richardson (Major, John) - 1847 - 240 pages
...But t'wae the first to fade away : " I never lov'da dear gazelle, To soothe me with its soft, black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die." Not one week from the date of this interview with Lord Sydenham, the accident occurred which later... | |
 | Robert Farmer (of Ealing.) - 1847 - 136 pages
...flower, But 'twas the first to fade away ; I never loved a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft blacU eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die." MOORE. THEY say that she loves me, — I would it were true, But the glances her eye gave were silent... | |
 | Josiah Moody Fletcher - 1847 - 148 pages
...flower, But 't was 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." T. MOOKE. THE GOLDEN GIFT. The Rainbow. The eYening was glorious and light through the trees Play'd... | |
 | Richardson (Major, John) - 1847 - 244 pages
...as I hav« elsewhere quoted, " I never lov'da dear gazelle, To soothe me with its soft, black eyer But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die." One month after Lord Metcalfe's departure, my force was reduced, while others which had been raised... | |
 | Harriet Elizabeth Mozley - 1848 - 374 pages
...party already detailed. CHAPTER XXXIV. 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 ! Moore. FANNY'S affairs have been too long neglected ; and the reader must now be requested to recall... | |
 | 1905 - 640 pages
...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 ! THOMAS BAYNE. ST. NICHOLAS'S, HERTFORD.— On Thursday, 30 March, whilst the workmen were engaged... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1850 - 378 pages
...nature, makes Lalla Rookh say : — " 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." NTJMBERS XXI. IT was at the Arnon that Israel began to possess their land. For though the country east... | |
 | 1855 - 494 pages
...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 me, it was sure to die." How expressive is this of the holiest passion under the cloud of darkest disappointment! In its embodiment... | |
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