Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Gazelle
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.
Dickens—Old Curiosity Shop. Ch. LVI. Saying of Dick Swiveller.
The gazelles so gentle and clever
Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.
Heine—Book of Songs, Lyrical. Interlude No. 9.
I never nurs’d 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—The Fire Worshippers.
I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide,
But fell upon the sanded floor,
And always on the buttered side.
Parody of Moore. Probably by James Payn. Appeared in Chambers’ Journal.