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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? "
The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ... - Page 595
1808
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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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The Fisher's Daughter, Or; The Wanderings of Wolf, and the Fortunes of ...

Catherine George Ward - English fiction - 1824 - 602 pages
...hold no communication, or tender them any friendship, for to them— " All, what was friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth and fame, And leaves the wretch to weep." No, Captain Singleton sought for dearer ties, and more sacred...
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An Historical Inquiry Into the Principal Circumstances and Events Relative ...

Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 580 pages
...supporters who never has occasion to put benevolence to the test :— " And what is friendship but a name, — A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth and fame, And leaves the wretch to weep." The trial proceeded ;— -the charges brought against the...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. ii 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 ? u And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's jest ; On earth unseen, or only...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - English fiction - 1825 - 268 pages
...the paltry things ' More trifling still than they. • And what is friendship but a name, • A chann 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...
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The Wonders of Elora: Or, The Narrative of a Journey to the Temples and ...

John Benjamin Seely - Ellora (India) - 1825 - 650 pages
...as to society, what is it but a name, a shadow ? Nay, the poet asks, " 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 ?" This is the opinion of one who had felt what he wrote. In these monastic...
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St. Hubert; or, The trials of Angelina

Hubert (st.) - 1825 - 742 pages
...resumed Angelina, " that you men denied the existence of female friendship ? That you looked on it as * A name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth and fame, And leaves the wretch to weep!' Goldsmith. • " Attribute not to me," cried the black domino,...
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The Christian Library: The life of the Rev. John Wesley

Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...interest. This indeed governs tie world in their associations : — " And what is friendship but a namo, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep." But he sought not high connections — exalted friendships — or splendid alliances — he...
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Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting ...

Women - 1826 - 390 pages
...may never again be restored ! Ah ! too true are the words of song — ' 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 !' " Thus thought Isabel; but the thought was founded in error — the...
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Eloquence of the United States, Volume 4

Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 518 pages
...are the blossoms of the sunshine, but wither in the adverse blast. For, -' 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 ?'" But let all this pass for nothing. Let it be granted that the world...
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