 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pagina’s
...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 - 1822 - 194 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1823 - 404 pagina’s
...erisfelix, multos numerabis amicos ; " Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus ens." OVID. " What is .friendship but a name, -" A charm that lulls to sleep ; " A shade that follows wealth and fame, " But leaves the wretch to weep ¥* Amigo viejo, tocino y vino anejo. — " A friend, your bacon, and... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1823 - 780 pagina’s
...canker worm had yet crept to despoil it of its native bloom. CHAPTER XIV. "Ah ! what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ? A shade that follows wealth and fame, But leaves the wretch to weep. And what is love f an emptier sound, The modern fair one's jest : On... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1823 - 286 pagina’s
...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 - 762 pagina’s
...decay ; And those who prize such paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship nces, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on e or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 586 pagina’s
...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...follows wealth and fame, And leaves the wretch to weep." . •.; '• .t The trial proceeded ; — the charges brought against the duke were as follows: . ,... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 602 pagina’s
...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 affections; in the bosom... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship ; 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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? 
