 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship bat 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 jest :... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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 fume, And leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair-one's jest,... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Conduct of life - 1818 - 432 pages
...speaking, in the following lines of Goldsmith : "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that hills to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, •» But leaves the wretch to weep." "When a man falls into misfortune, it often happens that some of those he had most befriended... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...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 love is still an emptier soun4 The modern fair-one's jest: On earth unseen, or only found To warm... | |
 | 1819 - 384 pages
...attribute the following beautiful description of worldly pleasure : " 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? GOLDSMITH. And too faithful is the portrait — there are a set of beings... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...decay ; And those who prize the paltry More trifling still than they. I 'And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, Aud leares the wretch to weep ? 'And love is still an emptier sound, The modtrn fair om 's jest ; OB... | |
 | 1819 - 382 pages
...attribute the follow ing beautiful description of worldly pleasure : > • " 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? GOLDSMITH. And too faithful is the portrait— there are a set of beings... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 406 pages
...And those who prize the paltry things, Mure 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; On earth unseen, or only found... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...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 : " On earth unseen, or only... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 604 pages
...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 leares the wretch to weep. GOLDSMITH. THE expectation of the arrival of the holidays creates no... | |
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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? 
