 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 lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch...  The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Pagina 74door Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 134 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1822 - 666 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pagina’s
...unrequited love ? " Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize such olicy of antiquity had destined for the residence...Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the king ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 222 pagina’s
...friendship unretum'd, Or unregarded love ? ' Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and deeay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling...than they. ' And what is friendship but a name, A eharm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wreteh to weep ? '... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pagina’s
...the joys that fortune brings Arc trifling, and decay ; And those who prize such paltry things, SI ore 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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pagina’s
...habitations spum'd, Reluctant dost thou rove ? Or grieve for friendship unruturn'd, Or unrequited love ? " 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 but a name, A charm that... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1823 - 286 pagina’s
...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 to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep." When a man is unfortunate, it... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 156 pagina’s
...aiuj decay: And those who prize th*- paltry things, .blort uiiliii^ stiii MI^JI tiiey. WAKEFIELB. 31 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.... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1823 - 780 pagina’s
...spotless rose, in which no canker worm had yet crept to despoil it of its native bloom. CHAPTER XIV. "Ah ! 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 what is love f an emptier... | |
 | 1823 - 406 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...spurn'd, Reluctant dost thou rove: Or grieve for friendship unretum'd, Or unregarded love ? "AlasI sted eglantine: While the cock with lively din Scatters...dames before ; Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier... | |
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