Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, To all the lower world denied. DR. S. JOHNSON. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar : SHAKESPEARE. Turn him, and see his threads: look if he be Lay this into your breast: J. WEBSTER. Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. Evangeline. H. W. LONGFELLOW. True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. Cynthia's Revels. Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, B. JONSON. If thou but think'st him wronged, and makʼst his ear A stranger to thy thoughts. Othello, Act iii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE. Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; King Henry V. EARL OF ORRERY. Be kind to my remains; and O, defend, Epistle to Congreve. J. DRYDEN. O summer friendship, Whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in The Maid of Honor. P. MASSINGER. Such is the use and noble end of friendship, To bear a part in every storm of fate. Generous Conqueror. B. HIGGONS. Friendship, like love, is but a name, 'T is thus in friendships: who depend On many, rarely find a friend. Fables: The Hare and many Friends. J. GAY. Like summer friends, The Answer. G. HERBERT. What the declined is He shall as soon read in the eyes of others As feel in his own fall; for men, like butterflies, Show not their mealy wings but to the summer. Troilus and Cressida, Act iii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, Is such a friend, that one had need On Friendship. W. COWPER. Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, G. CANNING. Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love. Much Ado about Nothing, Act ii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE. If I speak to thee in Friendship's name, How Shall I Woo? T. MOORE. Of all our good, of all our bad, More Songs from Vagabondia: Envoy. R. HOVEY. It's an owercome sooth for age an' youth, That the dearest friends are the auldest friends Poems: In Scots. R. L. STEVENSON. For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. The Hind and the Panther. J. DRYDEN. O Friendship, flavor of flowers! O lively sprite of life! strife. Of Friendship. FRIGHT. N. GRIMOALD. I feel my sinews slacken with the fright, The Tempest. J. DRYDEN. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : To ears of flesh and blood. Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE. Of great events stride on before the events, The Death of Wallenstein. S. T. COLERIDGE. When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, As though there were a tie, And obligation to posterity. J. DRYDEN. We get them, bear them breed and nurse. That we, lest they their rights should lose, J. TRUMBULL. The best of prophets of the Future is the Past. Letter, Jan. 28, 1821. GENTLEMAN. LORD BYRON. He is gentil that doth gentil dedis. Canterbury Tales: The Wyf of Bathes Tale. CHAUCER. The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne; For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed As by his manners, Faërie Queene, Bk. VI. Canto IV. E. SPENSER. Tho' modest, on his unembarrassed brow Don Juan, Canto IX. LORD BYRON. I freely told you, all the wealth I had Merchant of Venice, Act iii. Sc. 2. 66 SHAKESPEARE. I am a gentleman." I'll be sworn thou art ; Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit, Do give thee five-fold blazon. Twelfth Night, Act.i. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE. Nothing to blush for and nothing to hide, This is the gentleman Nature has made. N. L. O'DONOGHUE. And thus he bore without abuse In Memoriam, CX. A. TENNYSON. His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. Absalom and Achitophel. J. DRYDEN. |