 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...paltry things. More trifling still than they. ' And what is friendship but a name A charm that lults to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame And leaves the wretch to weep • ' And love is still an emptier soundThe modern fair-one's jest : On earth unseen, or only found... | |
 | Catherine George Mason, afterwards MASON WARD (Catharine George) - 1821 - 802 pages
...much ; while at the same time Markland repeated, in his usual strain — t ' ' • • " 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 !" When Miss Mantle, with an enchanting variety of expression... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...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...follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep ? ' And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's jest: On earth unseen, or only found... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...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...follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's jest : On earth unseen, or only found... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...kind of friendship as this, and such sort of friends as these, induced the Poet to sing, " And 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 ?" A false friend, like a viper, entwines around you with... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...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 jest ;... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Conduct of life - 1823 - 286 pages
...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 whom... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - English fiction - 1823 - 780 pages
...gilded and charmed with the insidious art ;>i' flattery, or soft deluding friendship ; — for " 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 whether Jessy thought this or no, as the arms of... | |
 | John Collins (merchant.) - Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 404 pages
...Donee 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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...follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep ? 1 And love is still an emptier souna, The modern fair -one's jest ; On earth^ unseen, or only found... | |
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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... 
