...ages to the present time, experience has led many to exclaim with Goldsmith, " What is friendship hut a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch U/wecp." In as great a ratio as genuine friendship enhances the pleasures...

...friendship's lays. Some say we worship an imaginary shrine ; yes, they coldly say : — • ' Oil ! what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls...shade that follows wealth and fame, But leaves the poor to weep.' " Preserve me from the theory of such coldhearted sensualists, who only value themselves...

...guilty, a dislike to the person always takes possession of our hearts. Well may the moralist say: — 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 ? . Such was the hollow friendship of Ellen, who though endowed...

...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 leaves the wretch to weep ? ' And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's...

...Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the trifling 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 to weep ? c " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's...

...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 leaves the wretch to weep ? ' And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's...

...want of the well till it grows dry. Mankind are more ungrateful than many of the beasts that perish. 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. Well, were it to do again, it would not be done ; Mr Park has...

...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 leaves the wretch to weep ? ' And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's...

...A re 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 to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair-one's...

...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 leaves the wretch to weep ! " And love is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one's...