| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what is ames before ; Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn...the slumb'ring morn, From the side of some hoar hill ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair-one's jest: On earth unseen, or only found... | |
| Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 586 páginas
...rich in supporters who never has occasion to put benevolence to the test; — * ' if: " 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." . •.; '• .t The trial proceeded ; — the charges brought... | |
| Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 602 páginas
...determined to 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... | |
| John Benjamin Seely - 1825 - 650 páginas
...seclusion ; and 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...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 retreats, with my books... | |
| John Benjamin Seely - 1825 - 676 páginas
...; and as to society, what is it but a name, a shadow ? Nay, the poet asks, " And what \sjnendship, but a name— A charm that lulls to sleep — A shade...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 retreats, with my books... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 páginas
...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 jest ;... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...prize the paltry things More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship but a name, A eharm gg wreteh to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair-one's jest : On earth unseen,... | |
| Hubert (st.) - 1825 - 742 páginas
...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,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 páginas
...More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; \ 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... | |
| 1826 - 390 páginas
...bosom happiness 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...follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep !' " Thus thought Isabel; but the thought was founded in error — the friend of her heart was faithful.... | |
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