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" 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... "
Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting ... - Page 255
1826
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The Pocket Magazine of Classics and Polite Literature, Volume 3

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...follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep? GOLDSMITH. And too faithful is the portrait— there are a set of beings in the world, who, while a...
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The Deserted Village, Traveller, and Miscellaneous Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...fortune brings Are trifling and decay ; And those who prize the paltry More trifling still than they. I 'And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, Aud leares the wretch to weep ? 'And love is still an emptier sound, The modtrn fair om 's jest ; OB...
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Satires in India, Issue 451

British - 1819 - 114 pages
...every theme, In every Fair would realise their dream.! SATIRE rr Vox, et praterea nihil— — • And what is Friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep j • A shade that follows Wealth or Fame And'Ieaves the wretch to weep. GOLDIMITB.' •Lure sung my...
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The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical ..., Volume 23

English literature - 1820 - 406 pages
...brings Are trifling and decay ; And those who prize the paltry things, Mure 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; On earth...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1842 - 604 pages
...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. And leares the wretch to weep. GOLDSMITH. THE expectation of the arrival of the holidays creates no little...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...brings Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling things than they. " 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 ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The moder n fair-one's jest:...
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The Wreath: A Collection of Poems from Celebrated English Authors

English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...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...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...
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The Orphan Boy, Or Test of Innocence, Etc. (Founded on Facts.).

Catherine George Mason, afterwards MASON WARD (Catharine George) - 1821 - 802 pages
...Mantle say so much ; while at the same time Markland repeated, in his usual strain — t ' ' • • " 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 !" When Miss Mantle, with an enchanting variety of expression...
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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 still an emptier soundThe modern fair-one's jest : On earth unseen, or only found...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...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...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...
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