 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 pages
...unreturn'd, Or unregarded love ? " Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than...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 :... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...unreturn'd, Or uuregarded love ? " Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than...that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fume, And leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair-one's jest,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...Or uuregarded love? ' Alas! the joys that fortune brings ^ Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than...friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A phade that follows \vealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep ! * And love is still an emptier... | |
 | 1817 - 728 pages
...amico." But how rare is the blessing, and how few are the exceptions to the Poet's pathetic complaint, 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! With this English reinforcement to our party, we paid another visit... | |
 | 1817 - 710 pages
...rare is the blessing, and how few are the exceptioni to the Poet's pathetic complaint, And what i< Friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep! With this English reinforcement to our party, we paid another visit... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pages
...unreturn'd, Or unregarded love ? "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 bat a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...unreturned, Or unregarded love? "Alas! the joys that fortune brings . Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things More trifling still than they....lulls to sleep; A shade, that follows wealth or fame, "And love is still an emptier soun4 The modern fair-one's jest: On earth unseen, or only found To warm... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1818 - 432 pages
...speaking, in the following lines of Goldsmith : "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that hills to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, •» But leaves the wretch to weep." "When a man falls into misfortune, it often happens that some of those he had most befriended while... | |
 | 1819 - 384 pages
...circumstance, perhaps, we may attribute the following beautiful description of worldly pleasure : " 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? GOLDSMITH. And too faithful is the portrait — there are a set of beings... | |
 | 1819 - 382 pages
...circumstance, perhaps, we may attribute the follow ing beautiful description of worldly pleasure : > • " 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? GOLDSMITH. And too faithful is the portrait— there are a set of beings... | |
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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? 
