 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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, And leaves the wretch to weep ? ' And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | mme. Brendlah - 1838 - 260 pages
...guilty, a dislike to the 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the trifling 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 ? c " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...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, And leaves the wretch to weep ? ' And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...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, And leaves the wretch to weep ? ' And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...of the well till it grows dry. Mankind are more ungrateful than many of the beasts that perish. 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. Well, were it to do again, it would not be done ; Mr Park has... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...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, And leaves the wretch to weep ! " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...re 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... | |
 | Harriet Elizabeth Mozley - Bashfulness - 1841 - 396 pages
...is, you do not understand what true friendship is, and you say, like Edwin, when he was vexed, ' 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.' " " I am sure," replied Constance, " I say no such stuff"... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
