 | 1822 - 666 pàgines
...disregarded! Such 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pàgines
...Are trifling, am! decay; And those who |1ri/.e the paltry things, More trifling still than they. ' And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; ' And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair-one's jest ; On earth unseen, or only found... | |
 | 1827 - 474 pàgines
...//"---.-- next year. LOECMOOE-LODCP, Orl 1827. O o RETRIBUTION. they name not to themselves, and " Ali! what is friendship but a name— A charm that lulls to sleep ?" THE delights of unbounded confidence, offices of generous kindness : trust not to another ;" and... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pàgines
...trifling, and decay ; And those who prize such paltry tilings, More trifling still than they. -• And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls...follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's jest ; On earth unseen, or only found... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1823 - 286 pàgines
...truth, generally speaking, in the following lines of Goldsmith: " And what is friendship but a namf, 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 he had most befriended while in... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1823 - 780 pàgines
...however 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... | |
 | 1823 - 406 pàgines
...wind." " Donee 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 222 pàgines
...prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. ' And what is friendship but a name, A eharm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wreteh to weep ? ' And love is still an emptier sound. The modern fair one's jest; On earth unseen,... | |
 | English poetry, William Fordyce Mavor - 1823 - 502 pàgines
...who prize the paltry thiiry" More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship but a name t " 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 jest... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pàgines
...brings Are 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 ; 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 jest ;... | |
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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... 
