| British poets - 1822 - 296 páginas
...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... | |
| Catherine George Ward - 1823 - 780 páginas
...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 her doting... | |
| 1823 - 406 páginas
...erisfelix, multas numerabis amicos ; " Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus ens." OYID. " 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 vine añejo. — " A friend, your bacon,... | |
| Ezra Sampson - 1823 - 286 páginas
...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 páginas
...And those who prize such paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship but , 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... | |
| Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 602 páginas
...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... | |
| Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 580 páginas
...supporters who never has occasion to put benevolence to the test :— " 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." The trial proceeded ;— -the charges brought against the duke were as follows: 1st. Having carried... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...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 páginas
...And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship but ft 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... | |
| Hubert (st.) - 1825 - 742 páginas
...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 illiberal an opinion ! Far be it... | |
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