 | Ezra Sampson - 1823 - 286 strani
...downright hatred. There is too much truth, generally speaking, in the following lines of Goldsmith : " And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep." When a man is unfortunate, it often happens that some of those... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 strani
...Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize such paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 586 strani
...he only is rich in supporters who never has occasion to put benevolence to the test; — * ' if: " And what is friendship but a name, — A charm that...lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth and fame, And leaves the wretch to weep." . •.; '• .t The trial proceeded ; — the charges brought against... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 strani
...brings Are trifling, and decay : And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still thau they. ' And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep ? 1 And love is still an emptier souna, The modern fair -one's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 strani
...brings, Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. " struts his dames before ; Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumb'rin or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair-one's... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 602 strani
...determined to hold no communication, or tender them any friendship, for to them— " All, what was friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth and fame, And leaves the wretch to weep." No, Captain Singleton sought for dearer ties, and more sacred and congenial... | |
 | John Benjamin Seely - 1825 - 650 strani
...study and deep seclusion ; and as to society, what is it but a name, a shadow ? Nay, the poet asks, " And what is friendship, but a name— A charm that lulls to sleep — . A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep ?" This is the opinion of one who had felt what he wrote. In... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 strani
...brings. Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. ii And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep ? u And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Hubert (st.) - 1825 - 742 strani
...resumed Angelina, " that you men denied the existence of female friendship ? That you looked on it as * A name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth and fame, And leaves the wretch to weep!' Goldsmith. • " Attribute not to me," cried the black domino, " so... | |
 | Francis S. Higginson - 1825 - 586 strani
...mean time arrived : which the bearer represented as being of considerable importance. CHAPTER X. " And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A breath that follows wealth and fame, But leaves the wretch to weep." GOLDSMITH. The letter that had... | |
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