 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1837 - 460 sider
...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... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 sider
...paltry things, More trifling still than they. And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lolls 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 jest ; On earth unseen, or only found To... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 sider
...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... | |
 | mme. Brendlah - 1838 - 260 sider
...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 with... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1838 - 272 sider
...friendship's lays. Some 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 sider
...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...follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep. Well, were it to do again, it would not be done ; Mr Park has scarcely now a single friend of all those... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 sider
...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 - 1839 - 242 sider
...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 jest... | |
 | 1840 - 378 sider
...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... | |
| |
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... 
