 | Elizabeth Stryker Ricord - 1840 - Страниц: 440
...despondence exclaim, "Oh ! ever from my 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 To glad me with its soft black eye, Bat when it came to know me well, And love... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - Страниц: 366
...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 my fondest...flower, " But 'twas the first to fade away. " I never nurs'da dear gazelle, " But when it came to know me well, " And love me, it was sure to die ! " Now... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - Страниц: 392
...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 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, "... | |
 | Herbert Kynaston - 1841 - Страниц: 194
...se subjicit arbos, Laetior, illecebris conspicienda tuis. VII. "'TWAS EVER THUS," &c. [Moon..] 'TWAS ever thus : from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never kept a young gazelle To glad me with its soft dark eye, But, when it came to know me well, And love... | |
 | Harriet Mozley - 1841 - 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1841 - Страниц: 402
...with measured steps. .'It has always been the same with me,'- said Mr. Swiveller, '' always. 'T was ever thus— from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest...decay, I never loved a tree or flower but 'twas the flrst to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, to glad me with its soft black eye, but when it... | |
 | Blackwood's Lady's Magazine VOL.X 1841 - 1841 - Страниц: 500
...the tear such recollections bring; while he felt he might almost, with Moore's Hindu, exclaim, Oh! 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. Such was the man who believed his honour stained... | |
 | 1842 - Страниц: 346
...Ladies' Pearl. MATILDA MORGAN. Oh ! 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 nurs'da dear gazelle, . To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 758
...continued.) Original. THE YOUTH'S PORTFOLIO. BY THEODORE THINKER. No. II. DISAPPOINTED HOPES. " OH ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away." SEVERAL years ago in a retired village of Connecticut lived Emma Willington. When about fourteen years... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 450
...utter bereavement as the door of future intercourse was being closed ad cternnm. ' Oh ! 'tis ever tlnis from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the 6rst to fade away !' " These simple lines M'Dermott uttered with a pathos of feeling genuine and sacred.... | |
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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. 
