 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 sayfa
..."Alas! the joys that fortune brings, Are trifling and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, d ; The` 40 weep1! "And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's jest; On earth unseen, or only found... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 sayfa
...grieve for friendship unreturn'd, Or unregarded love? *&' « Alas! the joys that fortune brings, « 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 To... | |
 | Carlton BRUCE (pseud. [i.e. George Mogridge.]) - 1837 - 300 sayfa
...find a single stick at the North Pole; and Greenland is not half so green as other places. FRIENDSHIP. And what is friendship, but a name, A charm that lulls...follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep. GOLDSMITH. I COULD laugh outright at the absurd notions which in my youth I entertained of friendship... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1837 - 460 sayfa
...blessings. From the earliest ages to the present time, experience has led many to exclaim with Goldsmiih, " What is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls...follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep." In as great a ratio лв genuine friendship enhances the pleasures of life, false friendship embitters... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 sayfa
...Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the paltry things, The apple frae its rocks as mellow. P"air was thy...In flow'ry bands thou didst him fetter; Tho' he wa And leaves the wretch to weep? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's jest ; On... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1902 - 560 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...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 To... | |
 | Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - 1902 - 376 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 ;... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 sayfa
...pity them.1 md. Stanza e. Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.8 stanza «. 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 ? Stanza 19. The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1902 - 290 sayfa
...pincheth, hath friendship as slack" ; while Goldsmith, it will be remembered, bitterly sums all up in, " 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." Another adage declares that " Compliments cost nothing but... | |
 | 1902 - 386 sayfa
...More trifling still than they. A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep ! ' 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; ' For shame, fond youth, thy sorrows... | |
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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... 
