 | James Flamank - 1833
...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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1835 - 252 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, But leaves the wretch to weep? And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's jest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1835
...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... | |
 | 1837
...earliest 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837
...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 - 272 páginas
...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
...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... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1838 - 243 páginas
...say we worship an imaginary shrine ; yes, they coldly say : — • ' Oil ! what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth and fame, But leaves the poor to weep.' " Preserve me from the theory of such coldhearted sensualists, who only... | |
 | mme. Brendlah - 1838
...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
...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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