 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,...  The Poetical Works of Andrew Steel - Sida 17efter Andrew Steel - 1863 - 247 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Richard Bohndorf - 1913 - 108 sidor
...persönliche Genus wie das neutrale stehen könnte. Wenn man z. B. folgende Verse: I never nurs'da dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when...to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die! (409/283.) mit jener Stelle vergleicht, wo gazelle personifiziert vorkommt (so das Zitat p. 33), so... | |
 | Thomas Westwood - 1914 - 224 sidor
...Swiveller's pathos on that subject ? " I never nursed a dear gazelle to glad me with its soft brown eye, but when it came to know me well, and love me, it was sure to go and marry a market gardener." Forgive this brief and wretched letter. I will write more at length... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1917 - 856 sidor
...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...came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew, To see thee, hear thee, call thee... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 sidor
...a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'da dear gazelle, To glad me witli its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die. The Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 sidor
..."Jowett's little garden." Claimed for WILLIAM LORT MANSEL and MR. HORHY. GAZELLE ££ I never nursed a dear . 5. L. 52. » Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright. Henry VI. Pt marry a marketgardener. DICKENS — Old Curiosity Shop. Ch. LVT. Saying of Dick SwiveUer. 23 (See also... | |
 | David Herbert Lawrence, Mary Louisa Skinner - 1924 - 404 sidor
...great sea more and more — " Again a sudden and commanding yell from Lennie. "I never loved a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But, when it came to know me well And love me — " Here the twins, as if hypnotized, howled out — " — it was sure to die." They kept up this... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1925 - 1118 sidor
...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 And love me/it was sure to die, Now, too. the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew, To see thee,... | |
 | Octavius William Andrews - 1927 - 484 sidor
...always called it) he loved it dearly, but like the one described by Moore : — " I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye But when...came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die ! " it too fell sick and, alas, died. It had eaten a number of brass screws, and the only treatment... | |
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