 | 1837 - 450 strani
...ages to the present time, experience has led many to exclaim with Goldsmith, " What is friendship hut a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch U/wecp." In as great a ratio as genuine friendship enhances the pleasures... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1838 - 272 strani
...friendship's lays. Some say we worship an imaginary shrine ; yes, they coldly say : — • ' Oil ! what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls...shade that follows wealth and fame, But leaves the poor to weep.' " Preserve me from the theory of such coldhearted sensualists, who only value themselves... | |
 | mme. Brendlah - 1838 - 260 strani
...guilty, a dislike to the person always takes possession of our hearts. Well may the moralist say: — 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 ? . Such was the hollow friendship of Ellen, who though endowed... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 strani
...brings Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the 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, And leaves the wretch to weep ? ' And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 strani
...Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the trifling 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 ? c " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 strani
...brings Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the 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, And leaves the wretch to weep ? ' And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 strani
...want of the well till it grows dry. Mankind are more ungrateful than many of the beasts that perish. 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. Well, were it to do again, it would not be done ; Mr Park has... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 strani
...brings Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the 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, And leaves the wretch to weep ? ' And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 strani
...A re trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the 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... | |
 | 1840 - 368 strani
...brings Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the 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, And leaves the wretch to weep ! " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
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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... 
