 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 sayfa
...Alas ! the joys that fortune brings, Are 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 lults to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame And leaves the wretch to weep • ' And love is... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 sayfa
...' Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things More trifling still than they. ' And what is friendship...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: On... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 sayfa
...Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the paltry things More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship...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 :... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 sayfa
...Alas ! the joys th.it fortune brings 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... | |
 | 1822 - 666 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 sayfa
...Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize such paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship...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 sayfa
...downright hatred. There is too much truth, generally speaking, in the following lines of Goldsmith : " And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls...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... | |
 | 1823 - 406 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1823 - 780 sayfa
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sayfa
..."AlasI the joys that fortune brings, Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames...hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumb'ring morn, F And leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair-one's jest: On... | |
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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... 
