| John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 頁
...to-night ! I knew, I knew it could not last — 'Twas bright, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past I Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, 30 But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black... | |
| William W. Davis - 1908 - 678 頁
...successful, and of all these buildings, only a tottering brick wall stands on the bank of the river. 0, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. Now a return to the former manufacturing activity is projected by the erection of a government dam... | |
| James Britton Cranfill - 1908 - 526 頁
...written on the fly leaf in a woman's gentle hand, were these words from Moore's "Lalla Rookh" : — " Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away." That has been the refrain from many a blighted life, and •vill he recurrent until death is dead and... | |
| Lucretia S. McDonald - 1908 - 292 頁
...clearly. She said at last : "Louise, I feel very much like repeating that old, wornout story : ' 'Twas 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.' " "Who is going to leave you, dear? Not Prissy?" laughed Mrs. Bossford,... | |
| William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 頁
...heavenly, but 'tis past. 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...dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye. But wnen it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die. Now, too, the joy most like divine Of... | |
| Caleb Jones, Julia Anna Jones - 1909 - 226 頁
...To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes." Al: "Oh! 'twas ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away." Doc Styles: "Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, 'Tis man's perdition... | |
| 1909 - 448 頁
...pheasant, or other dainty that had specially appealed to what is termed their grosser natures : — Oh ! ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. A feature, too, with these individuals is to look well ahead, and when they meet with something more... | |
| Edgar Meck Dilley - 1911 - 424 頁
...was standing in the summer-house — free! Solonika was trusting me! CHAPTER XII THE RENUNCIATION Oh, ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away! — Moore: Lalla Rookh. WHEN I returned to Castle Framkor that evening and joined Nicholas and the... | |
| Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 頁
...enjoy'd, Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd ! 1231 Moore: Lalla Rookh. Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. O ! ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away ! 1232 Moore : Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers DISCONTENT. I know a discontented gentleman, Whose humble... | |
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