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,... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 5071840Full view - About this book
| Ireland - 1843 - 450 pages
...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... | |
| 1843 - 758 pages
...PORTFOLIO. BY THEODORE THINKER. No. II. DISAPPOINTED HOPES. " 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." SEVERAL years ago in a retired village of Connecticut lived Emma Willington.... | |
| 1843 - 332 pages
...PORTFOLIO. BY THEODORE THINKER. NO. II. DISAPPOINTED HOPES. " OH ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay — I never loved a tree or flower But 'twaa the first to fade away." SEVERAL years ago in a retired village of Connecticut lived Emma Willington.... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...could not last — 'T was bright, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past ! 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... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1845 - 502 pages
...•••:... -.i • -i, -..: CHAPTER VIII. '".I •' ':"j.' .' ., "Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour I 've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, -• ; j.. • '. But 'twas the firrt to fede away." • •.. • •>. .. LallaSookh. t •». .••... | |
| Lady Georgina Anne Emily Kerr Bertie, Lady Georgina Bertie - England - 1845 - 626 pages
...desponding expressions remind one of those touching lines : " Oh ! ever thus, since childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. 1 never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1846 - 828 pages
...has always been the same with me," said Mr. Swiveller, "always. 'T was ever thus — from childhood's hour I 've seen my fondest hopes decay, I never loved...tree or 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,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...could not last — 'T was bright, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past ! Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never...tree or 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,... | |
| Dickens - Gordon Riots, 1780 - 1846 - 462 pages
...and walked up and down the office with measured steps. "always. T was ever thus — from childhood's hour I 've seen my fondest hopes decay , I never loved a tree or flower but 't *as the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear Gazelle, to glad me with its soft black eye, but... | |
| W. H. Leigh - Australia - 1847 - 244 pages
...you from my sight, Yes,v said he mournfully, " I am a doomed man !TT' And ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay : I never loved a tree or flower, But it was first to fade away.' And npw-Treven now, I am but a moment in bliss, ere everything again must... | |
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