 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pagine
...gather around, they fly to brighter scenes and more profitable society. Goldsmith exclaims, — i " 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." The exercise of a friendly and noble disposition is not only... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1834 - 596 pagine
...however gilded and charmed with the insidious art of flattery, or soft deluding friendship;—for " What is friendship but a name,— A charm, that lulls...follows wealth and fame^ But leaves the wretch to weepI'• And whether Jessy thought this or no, as the arms of her doting old father were encircled... | |
 | 1832 - 858 pagine
...in gloomy solitude tits their ingratitude, and to feel the biting memory rf " benefits forgot." "For what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follow ; wealth or fame, And leaves llie wretch to weep." But the attachment of a mother.no change... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1835 - 270 pagine
...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, But leaves the wretch to weep? And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's jest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 334 pagine
...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, But leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pagine
...grieve for friendship unreturn'd, Or unregarded love? *&' « Alas! the joys that fortune brings, « 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... | |
 | Carlton BRUCE (pseud. [i.e. George Mogridge.]) - 1837 - 300 pagine
...single stick at the North Pole; and Greenland is not half so green as other places. FRIENDSHIP. 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. GOLDSMITH. I COULD laugh outright at the absurd notions which... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1837 - 460 pagine
...blessings. From the earliest ages to the present time, experience has led many to exclaim with Goldsmiih, " 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." In as great a ratio лв genuine friendship enhances the pleasures... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 530 pagine
...trifling and decay ; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what rs 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... | |
 | 1837 - 450 pagine
...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... | |
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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... 
