Friendship
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9.Fellowship and good company
9a.Conversation, feasts and hospitality
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 13Athene as Mentes claims hereditary guest-friendship between her house and Odysseus's, proving her bona fides by old ties of friendly houses and past converse.read · scan
- p. 241–242Odysseus, disguised, claims to be a friend of Odysseus and his house; Eumaeus's loyalty and trust in that claim carry the hospitality-based bond of friendship.read · scan
- p. 284Odysseus and Iphitus exchange bow, sword and spear as the start of a loving friendship, cut short when Heracles murders Iphitus, violating guest-friendship.read · scan
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- p. 326Disguised Odysseus recalls giving lavish guest-friendship to Laertes' supposed son, dearest of strangers, and asks after his friend's fate; hospitality-bond shown.read · scan
- p. 327Laertes laments that gifts to his son were in vain; Odysseus's feigned tale speaks of hoping to meet in friendship and exchange gifts; reciprocity of guest-friends.read · scan
Aesop, FablesVol. 17
- p. 13–14Town and Country Mouse: country cousin heartily welcomes his town friend; the friend's showy hospitality proves dangerous, and the visitor parts, preferring peaceful simplicity.read · scan
Aeschylus, The Libation-BearersVol. 8
- p. 105–106Orestes invokes the bond of guest and host as the deepest goodwill; Clytemnestra laments the Fury stripping her of friends and speaks of counselling with friends.read · scan
Herodotus, An Account of EgyptVol. 33
- p. 87–88Amasis, a lover of the Hellenes, gives proofs of friendship through grants of Naucratis, land for altars, and gifts to Delphi.read · scan
- p. 89Amasis makes a pact of friendship and alliance with Kyrene and honours Polycrates through guest-friendship, shown as motivating offerings and marriage.read · scan
Plato, The Apology of SocratesVol. 2
- p. 28Socrates imagines the afterlife as fellowship of conversation with Homer, Hesiod, Orpheus and heroes, valuing good company and shared inquiry.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 47Friends daily gathered to pass the days with Socrates; Xanthippe laments it is the last time he will converse with his friends.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old AgeVol. 9
- p. 53–54Old men enjoy the society of young men and the young enjoy the old; mutual pleasure in each other's company, Cato says of Scipio and Laelius.read · scan
- p. 61Cato values banquets for the gathering and conversation of friends over food; convivium, 'living together', shows fellowship and good company as the real point of feasting.read · scan
- p. 61–62Cato prizes prolonged conversation at daily dinners with neighbours and younger companions; fellowship and talk outlast appetite in old age.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters of CiceroVol. 9
- p. 105–107Cicero is gratified that his friend values his company so highly as to want to live with him, and reciprocates the eagerness for close companionship.read · scan
- p. 107Cicero wishes he could abandon his profession and live with his friend and others like him; laments defending men who were no friends out of obligation.read · scan
- p. 155–157Playful banter with a friend over dinners; loss is easier to bear when it comes from a friend than a debtor; good-humoured fellowship.read · scan
- p. 173Young Cicero writes to Tiro of shared sorrow and joy, partnership in fortunes, and delights in the companionship of Cratippus and Bruttius, good company mixing fun and philosophy.read · scan
- p. 173–175Cicero's son describes his intimate daily companions and his loyalty to his friend Tiro, promising financial help and hoping for future literary conversation together.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 128Anius greets Anchises as an old friend, joining hands in sign of ancient love, showing renewed loyalty of long-standing friendship.read · scan
- p. 270Evander recalls seeking Anchises' friendship as 'friendship's holy bands', joined by clasped hands and gifts; hospitality and a league renew the bond with Anchises' son.read · scan
Luke, The Gospel According to LukeVol. 44
- p. 393–394Finder of lost sheep calls friends and neighbors to rejoice with him, showing fellowship in shared joy.read · scan
- p. 394–395Woman who finds her lost coin calls friends and neighbors to share her rejoicing, showing friends as companions in joy.read · scan
Plutarch, PericlesVol. 12
- p. 41Pericles shuns friends' suppers and social intercourse, reasoning that familiarity erodes gravity, though real excellence is best seen by nearer friends; friends handle lesser business.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 179Socrates says true friends will not mind scanty hospitality, and those who would are not worth caring for; a test of genuine friendship.read · scan
Tacitus, GermanyVol. 33
- p. 104Germans inherit kindred's friendships and enmities; boundless hospitality and open-handed gift-giving to guests and strangers alike, without reckoning of obligation.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 202–203Playful reproach of a friend who broke a supper engagement; prizes unconstrained mirth and good company, and treats a slight as grudging a friend.read · scan
- p. 215Condemns a host who ranks guests and friends in degrees with different wine; Pliny gives all guests the same fare, and warns a young friend out of care.read · scan
- p. 229Spurinna's day includes conversation with friends in the house and a drive with a friend; Pliny prizes the companionship, though the focus is on his orderly life.read · scan
- p. 229Spurinna's table shows good company: friends are free to share or do as they prefer, and he keeps the dinner affable so guests never tire.read · scan
- p. 343Urges mutual tolerance of friends' differing tastes in amusements, so that others in turn will indulge ours.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 195–196Antoninus Pius released his friends from obligation to dine with or attend him, and stayed the same to those who could not.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 51Consolation from other friends and the delights of fellowship: talk, jest, reading, kind offices, dissent and consent, that melt souls into one; yet loving mortals as immortal breeds grief.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 187–188The host, delighted by the brother's good-humoured endurance of his trick, asks him to be his true companion; they feast together as familiar friends for twenty years.read · scan
- p. 333Jullanar hopes her family's meeting with the King will bring mutual friendship; the bond of bread and salt is invoked as establishing fellowship between host and guest.read · scan
Amerigo Vespucci, Amerigo Vespucci's Account of His First VoyageVol. 43
- p. 28Natives offer friendship and hospitality to strangers, bound by common enmity toward captives' foes; friendship shown as alliance and honoring guests, carrying and protecting them.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 164Academic philosophy suits familiar talk among friends but not kings' councils; touches on counsel and fitting speech, with friends as a setting of easy conversation.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 272–273Cellini values the friendship of a few musicians and cardinals at Ferrara as the only good there, contrasting with a grasping populace.read · scan
- p. 345Cheerful friend Tasso the carpenter lifts Cellini's gloom with his singing; friend's company as consolation in distress.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, Of BookesVol. 32
- p. 94Prefers to know what Caesar said among familiar friends in his tent, valuing private intimate talk over public speech.read · scan
William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan EnglandVol. 35
- p. 277Describes convivial fellowship at feasts: artisans and husbandmen are friendly and merry without malice at table, each contributing, with the lesser friend better provided; good company shown at work.read · scan
- p. 277–278Shows hospitality to visiting friends: country folk welcome them fully until departure, while city entertainment is stingy by contrast.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 113–114Raleigh refuses to court readers with 'friendly' phrases and cites 'one is enough' (Seneca, Epicurus) for a single loved reader, Prince Henry; friendship faintly implied.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of MacbethVol. 46
- p. 358Macbeth regrets Banquo's absence from the company of honoured friends, and Lady Macbeth urges the worthy friends to keep seat; good fellowship at the feast.read · scan
Francis Beaumont, On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey; Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben JonsonVol. 40
- p. 319–320Beaumont's letter to Jonson: the sun comforts absent friends, and he recalls the good fellowship of wit-filled meetings at the Mermaid tavern.read · scan
- p. 321Beaumont's letter to Ben Jonson: longs for his company, says he has no good but in Jonson's fellowship, and recalls witty conviviality at the Mermaid.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. John DonneVol. 15
- p. 325–326Lord Ellesmere treats Donne as a friend rather than a servant, seating him at his table and valuing his company and discourse.read · scan
- p. 332Donne's friendship is sought by nobles and ambassadors; friends urge him to live in London and support his family.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written During the Civil War and the Protectorate, 1642-1658Vol. 4
- p. 84–85Sonnets invite friends Lawrence and Cyriack to shared fireside meals, music and mirth; good company as a wise use of time; friend as support in blindness.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 243Adam thanks Raphael for 'friendly condescension'; Eve's preference for her husband shows companionship of mutual honour and love.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 277–279Honest says the pilgrims' great want was harbour and good company, which hospitable friends of the guide now supply.read · scan
- p. 279–280Hospitality and good company: the host gathers his friends for the pilgrims, and the sight of good men is prized by travelers like stars to sailors.read · scan
John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning EducationVol. 37
- p. 5The work is described as the private conversation of two friends, and the importunity of friends is named as the usual pretext for publishing.read · scan
Jonathan Swift, A Treatise on Good Manners and Good BreedingVol. 27
- p. 100Over-ceremonious hospitality at a friend's house becomes tyranny, thwarting the guest's inclinations; false civility undermines genuine fellowship.read · scan
Jonathan Swift, On the Death of Esther Johnson [Stella]Vol. 27
- p. 126Stella regretted her means did not let her entertain friends more hospitably; friends were always welcome and treated with elegance.read · scan
George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and PhilonousVol. 37
- p. 189Hylas says his thoughts flow more easily in conversation with a friend than alone, valuing the fellowship of shared discourse.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 11–12Franklin's father liked sensible friends or neighbors at table for improving conversation, showing good company as instructive fellowship.read · scan
- p. 102–103Franklin's friendship with Whitefield: a sincere civil friendship despite religious difference; hospitality offered for the friend's sake, not for Christ's, and lasting to his death.read · scan
- p. 127Morris brings Franklin home for convivial company and wine in the midst of political quarrel; friendly fellowship survives public opposition.read · scan
Samuel Johnson, Life of Addison, 1672-1719Vol. 27
- p. 177–178Steele's intimate praise of Addison's conversation in private company, contrasted with Pope's rival testimony; Addison's ease with familiar companions versus stiff silence before strangers.read · scan
- p. 179–180Addison's conversational brilliance shown among his circle of friends; Steele leaves his friend's portrait unfinished; his character praised by friends and uncontradicted by enemies.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 201Reflects that accepting hospitality and gifts from fellow members obligates the receiver and draws him into the giver's party; hospitality should come from genuine inward unity, not civility or reputation.read · scan
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVol. 10
- p. 277Hospitality shares a man's wealth with friends and companions, contrasted with selfish spending on oneself; shows generosity in fellowship.read · scan
Oliver Goldsmith, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 505Retaliation portrays convivial companions at table, each judged with affection and candor; fellowship and good company, and mourning the lost friend's mirth.read · scan
- p. 509–520Traveller's longing for his brother and earliest friend; blessing on hospitable fellowship of the hearth welcoming strangers and doing good.read · scan
William Cowper, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 550–552The calender welcomes Gilpin, jokes with him and offers hat, wig and food; neighbourly good fellowship shown in merry exchange.read · scan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for ScandalVol. 18
- p. 113Prologue satirizes how we laugh at our friends when the scandal's dart strikes them, showing the malice beneath sociable company.read · scan
- p. 183–184Gossips, ignorant of Sir Peter's condition, take Sir Oliver for 'a friend of Sir Peter's'; slight, mostly incidental reference to friend's concern.read · scan
- p. 186–187Sir Oliver says it isn't fair to laugh at his old friend Sir Peter's humiliation, yet cannot help it; strain between friendly feeling and mockery.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 102–104Prizes friendship with Johnie as unbreakable, sealed by a clasped hand and drink; proposes a convivial winter evening together.read · scan
- p. 187–189Wants a true good fellow for convivial company; refuses friendship with those who scorn poverty, but offers hand to one who hates the flinty heart.read · scan
- p. 262–264Toast praising a bottle and an honest friend as sufficient to content a man against life's cares; fellowship and good company as happiness.read · scan
- p. 362–363Convivial drinking contest among three chieftains showing fellowship and good company; Sir Robert never turned his back on foe or friend.read · scan
- p. 364–365Convivial drinking scene: 'bands of old friendship and kindred' tighten with wine, showing fellowship and good company among the drinkers.read · scan
- p. 413–415Toast welcoming Willie Stewart wishes that foes be strong and friends slack for whoever wrongs him, showing convivial loyalty to a friend.read · scan
- p. 421–423Wishes the Maxwell chief's many friends social glee and blessing; 'your friends aye love, your faes aye fear ye'; poet pledges to wear him next his heart.read · scan
William Wordsworth, Preface to Poems (1815)Vol. 39
- p. 309–310Cavalier verse on convivial fellowship: drinking to absent friends, supplying failing friends' place with charity, good company that frees from envy and care.read · scan
Robert Southey, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 732–734Books and the great dead are called 'never-failing friends' with whom the poet converses daily, a friendship with authors.read · scan
- p. 734Continues the companionship with the dead: sharing joy and woe, gratitude and instruction owed to these friends.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 536Rodrigo's convivial banquet of friends, where old ones go missing to plague and he jokes over Attilio's death, shows shallow fellowship; Griso keeps his distance from his sick master.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter ScottVol. 25
- p. 436Scott flees formal, tiresome guests for the relaxed company of his few friends and family at Chiefswood, contrasting hollow social flattery with easy fellowship.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, FriendshipVol. 5
- p. 112–113Perfect friendship needs rare, well-matched natures and is best as one-to-one; three spoil sincere conversation, which is friendship's practice and consummation.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CharacterVol. 5
- p. 196Emerson says he cannot forgive friends who fail to recognize and hospitably welcome a fine character.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, MannersVol. 5
- p. 201Notes the friendly and festive society of the energetic ruling class, and the gentleman as good company to pirates and academicians alike.read · scan
- p. 210Fox urging on his old friend Burke the claims of old friendship moves the House to tears; also social heartiness, sympathy and goodwill as the basis of good company.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, NatureVol. 5
- p. 232–233Wealth's true end is conversation and character, bringing friends together in a warm quiet room; the means have displaced the end.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England ReformersVol. 5
- p. 268Frank conversation in which a man opens himself to his brother reveals radical equality; a clear mind among one's friends can converse with genius as an equal.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 462Praises English kindness and hospitality from new friends, and names a cultivated person 'surrounded by a happy home, with troops of friends' as the best of institutions.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, AutobiographyVol. 25
- p. 40Contrasts French frank sociability and expected friendly feeling toward everyone with English reserve, where everybody acts as if others were enemy or bore.read · scan
- p. 116Praises Mrs. Taylor's qualities and her small circle of friends, admitted into it; also her husband as a steady, affectionate friend lacking shared intellectual tastes.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1302–1303Basil and Benedict's friendship shows at work in their children growing up together like brother and sister.read · scan
- p. 1305–1306Benedict welcomes Basil as friend whose place by the hearth is empty without him; easy fellowship, jest and shared talk in a time of foreboding.read · scan
9b.Clubs, comrades and companions of a common cause
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 35Nestor recalls his wartime harmony with Odysseus, always of one mind in council, and the loss of comrades like Patroclus and Antilochus; fellowship in counsel and loss.read · scan
- p. 133–135Odysseus rouses his despairing comrades as friends with comforting words and counsel; shared grief and encouragement show fellowship in adversity.read · scan
- p. 135–136Odysseus calls Polites the dearest and trustiest of his company; Polites' call to his comrades shows loyal fellowship, though barely developed.read · scan
- p. 166–167Crew loyally disobey Odysseus's pleas and bind him tighter to save him; he calls them 'dear company' and rallies them as friends in shared peril.read · scan
Confucius, The Sayings of ConfuciusVol. 44
- p. 52A gentleman is a friend, not a partisan: friendship contrasted with factionalism.read · scan
Aesop, FablesVol. 17
- p. 31Four Oxen stand together and are safe; once they quarrel and separate, the Lion destroys them, showing the strength of unity.read · scan
Herodotus, An Account of EgyptVol. 33
- p. 73–74Twelve kings covenant to live in perfect friendship, forgoing force or advantage over one another; friendship as a guarded political pact.read · scan
Euripides, The BacchaeVol. 8
- p. 373–375Cadmus greets Teiresias as true friend, recognizing his voice and wisdom, and asks his guidance; old companions' pact to join in the new worship.read · scan
- p. 375–377Old friends Cadmus and Teiresias clasp hands and go together to honor the god, sharing conviction and mutual support against Thebes' scorn.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters of CiceroVol. 9
- p. 158–159Playful banter with a friend, longing to visit him as a 'brother-in-arms'; shows the joking intimacy and mutual pleasure of good company between friends.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 91Ilioneus speaks as loyal follower of his lost prince, hoping for his safety, and mourns common losses with friends; the Trojans' bond of loyalty appears.read · scan
Plutarch, PericlesVol. 12
- p. 45Cimon's friends die together in battle, and Pericles's friends force Cimon's retreat, showing partisan loyalty among friends.read · scan
Plutarch, CoriolanusVol. 12
- p. 157Consuls hope common military service will mingle rich and poor and dispose them to reconciliation and friendship, treating shared enterprise as a bond of fellowship.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 92Nebridius abandons home and family to live with Augustine in shared search for truth; three friends sigh out their wants to one another in fellowship.read · scan
- p. 127One courtier turns to his friend urging a change of life; the friend resolves to cleave to him, sharing the venture, while the others go away congratulating them.read · scan
- p. 136Alypius, shown the passage read by Augustine, is strengthened by it and joins him in resolve; companions converted together and share the joy.read · scan
BeowulfVol. 49
- p. 38Wealhtheow praises the hall's fellowship: every earl true to the other, thanes friendly, liegemen loyal; she asks Beowulf to counsel her sons kindly.read · scan
The Destruction of Dá Derga's HostelVol. 49
- p. 224The princes' companionship is so cherished that anyone parted from them cannot sleep or eat for nine days; brotherly hearts and fellowship.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 58The mistress says friendship without money is not worth a grain; the porter is admitted to the company, showing fellowship and its price.read · scan
- p. 60–61Ladies chide the porter 'how slight is thy friendship' when treating him as a family member with duties.read · scan
- p. 91–93The prince pledges to serve and protect the youth, then shares meals and cheerful conversation, showing loyalty and companionship.read · scan
- p. 157–158The barber praises his convivial friends and urges the tailor to join their fellowship, quoting a poet on not deferring pleasure; company is valued for its enjoyment.read · scan
The Song of RolandVol. 49
- p. 129–130Roland addresses Olivier as friend and comrade, calling on him to fight beside him; comradeship in battle and shared loyalty.read · scan
- p. 142–143Roland calls Olivier brother and comrade and pledges joint fighting; Franks lament Ganelon's treasonous betrayal of them.read · scan
The Story of the Volsungs and NiblungsVol. 49
- p. 307–308Sigurd and Alswid's company shows fellowship and mutual loyalty; friends grieve at Sigurd's gloom and seek to cheer him.read · scan
Jean Froissart, The Chronicles of FroissartVol. 35
- p. 23On the eve of battle the French king asks his assembled lords to be friends with each other, seeking concord among allies.read · scan
Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy GrailVol. 35
- p. 209The voice calls the knights 'my friends and not my warriors'; Percivale appeals to the fellowship between them to learn Galahad's wish.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 24Traveling companions Cellini and Tasso: he pities and waits for the lagging comrade, and the two go on together, testing loyalty and mutual help.read · scan
- p. 54–55Survivors of plague rejoice in one another's company, forming a convivial club of artists with a hearty good-fellow founder; fellowship and good company.read · scan
- p. 55–56Fellowship of the artists' club shown in merry suppers; Cellini yields his mistress to a dear friend Bachiacca, showing friendship's cost.read · scan
- p. 175Cellini and Felice, constant companions, share jokes and mutual help; Cellini praises Felice for having saved his life, showing comradeship and gratitude.read · scan
- p. 298–299Cellini speaks of mutual friendship with Guido Guidi, enjoyed for years in Paris, shared exultation in advancing in art under a common patron.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, Of the Institution and Education of ChildrenVol. 32
- p. 70Public spectacles and shared recreation cherish and increase common society and loving friendship among citizens.read · scan
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusVol. 19
- p. 209Faustus calls Valdes and Cornelius 'gentle friends' and welcomes their conference and aid; fellowship of shared aims and pledged mutual help in a common enterprise.read · scan
Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's HolidayVol. 47
- p. 471–474Eyre and his men plead loyally to keep Ralph from the press, and Firk pleads for the couple's sake: solidarity among fellow workers.read · scan
- p. 482–483Eyre and his men welcome the new journeyman Hans into their fellowship, with drink and promise of good fellowship and loyalty ('we are good fellows').read · scan
- p. 497–498Hodge urges Hans to make much of Ralph as a brother of the trade, and Hans welcomes him as brother, showing fellowship among craftsmen.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 90Satan calls his fallen followers 'faithful friends', associates and co-partners in loss, and wants to rally them to share his fate; Beelzebub cites loyalty.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 101–102Hopeful, moved by Faithful's witness, joins Christian in a brotherly covenant as companion; Faithful's death is mourned and a new companion rises in his place.read · scan
- p. 139–140Hopeful affirms 'two are better than one' and Christian's company as mercy; Christian keeps him awake, and saints' fellowship and good discourse sustain them.read · scan
- p. 189–190Christiana and Mercy become companions in pilgrimage, sharing all things in common; Mercy weeps for her friends left behind, and Christiana comforts her.read · scan
- p. 275–276Feeble-mind laments lacking a suitable companion; Great-heart promises to support him, bending to his weakness; Ready-to-halt offers a crutch and fellowship, showing companionship among the weak.read · scan
- p. 305–306Pilgrims meeting Stand-fast rejoice at finding a fellow traveler and welcome his company, showing gladness in kindred fellowship on the road.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 37Fellowship of young readers who walk, read and confer together; Osborne is praised as sincere and affectionate to his friends, and he counsels Ralph candidly.read · scan
- p. 41–42Ralph and Franklin, inseparable companions, share lodging and spend money together; Ralph borrows and both neglect their obligations, a friendship that weakens each.read · scan
- p. 56–57Franklin forms the Junto, a club of mutual improvement, with rules of courteous conversation so members avoid disgusting one another; fellowship and good company.read · scan
- p. 58Junto members are judged as companions, Godfrey being unpleasing; Franklin's forty-year friendship with Coleman lasts unbroken, and the club's rules for conversation sustain fellowship.read · scan
- p. 66–68Junto members share books and Franklin's friends help his library project, showing fellowship as common benefit.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 181–182Woolman and his travelling companion journeyed in harmony and parted in nearness of true brotherly love, showing fellowship between companions.read · scan
- p. 184–185Woolman describes his traveling companion as inwardly united with him in the ministry, older, bearing the heaviest burden; shows companionship and unity in shared work.read · scan
- p. 275–276Woolman and his friend John Sleeper discover they share the same concern independently, a fellowship of shared purpose that leads them to travel together.read · scan
- p. 289–290Samuel Emlen weeps with gladness at Woolman's plan to sail with him; other Friends voice concern for his discomfort, showing affectionate solicitude between companions.read · scan
John Skinner, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 568–570Song of fellowship and good company: dance and mirth unite Whig and Tory, dispel spite, and bless the honest, open-hearted friend.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 341–342La Tour du Pin's grief at charges against soldiers with whom he has lived fifty years as comrade and friend shows loyalty betrayed and bonds of fellowship.read · scan
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm, or The Soldier's FortuneVol. 26
- p. 313–314Minna says it is melancholy to be happy alone, wanting her maid to share her joy; sharing gladness is treated as part of companionship.read · scan
- p. 320–322Minna insists Franziska rejoice with her, since it is melancholy to be happy alone, and prizes her sympathetic distress for Tellheim; companionship in feeling.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 150–151Two dogs: Luath the collie is the ploughman's friend and comrade, and gains friends everywhere; the poet pledges loyal care for his old servant.read · scan
- p. 354–356Three convivial companions drink through the night, pledging merriment together; also addresses patron as 'friend of my life' with gratitude for his bounty and pledged loyalty.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 387–391Stauffacher turns to his comrade Walter Furst, whose thoughts match his own, to take counsel on resisting tyranny; shared purpose among friends.read · scan
- p. 406–411Attinghausen urges Rudenz to stay with kindred and friends, praising followers bound by unbought love and loyalty, and warns that alone among strangers he will stand like a reed.read · scan
- p. 413–416Stauffacher asks to know the friends, and Meyer, an enemy at law, clasps hands with Reding: common cause overrides quarrels and rank, so fellowship of worth.read · scan
- p. 426–427The Rütli oath of a band of brothers sworn never to part in danger or death; also winning secret friends for the league.read · scan
Articles of ConfederationVol. 43
- p. 158States enter a formal 'league of friendship' binding themselves to mutual assistance in common defence and welfare, treating friendship as alliance and mutual aid.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 146Gertrude's companions: transient, apparent friendship amid envy and hatred; she seeks their kindness, counsel and encouragement out of loneliness.read · scan
- p. 234Renzo thanks his companions, concluding that honest fellows give each other a hand and support each other; a naive statement of mutual aid among good company, though drink-fuelled.read · scan
- p. 291Rodrigo dreads facing his friends, whose company would renew his humiliation; shows fellowship as a social pressure over reputation, not a comfort.read · scan
- p. 314Banished outlaw keeps corresponding with friends bound in a secret alliance of crime; loyalty among companions in wrongdoing.read · scan
- p. 321–322The Unnamed fears sinking in the eyes of his friend and accomplice if he breaks his promise, and seeks counsel from Egidio; loyalty and counsel among confederates.read · scan
- p. 493Among refugees, acquainted families reunite and new friendships form; Agnese and Perpetua pass time chatting with friends, and Don Abbondio confides his griefs to them.read · scan
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household TalesVol. 17
- p. 113–114Outcast animals join one another for mutual aid, proposing to travel to Bremen and make music together.read · scan
- p. 114Animal companions take counsel and cooperate, standing on one another to drive out the robbers, showing fellowship and good company.read · scan
Lord Byron, ManfredVol. 18
- p. 423Manfred says he named no friend or human tie; he shunned fellowship with men and preferred solitude, finding company degrading.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter ScottVol. 25
- p. 432Scott leaning on Tom Purdie's shoulder and chatting freely shows affectionate, loyal familiarity between master and servant; Purdie's heart swells at the intimacy.read · scan
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a UniversityVol. 28
- p. 60Basil draws a circle of companions who esteem and love him; bosom-friends Sophronius and Eusebius; friends try to keep the departing saints from leaving.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England ReformersVol. 5
- p. 259Friendship and association are fine, but a man in friendship and natural associations multiplies himself, whereas binding himself to a society dwarfs him.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 453Emerson prizes his friend Carlyle as a companion for the excursion, valuing exchange of candid thought with a man of genius and severe duty.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 323–325The Shadow offers to take the ailing Learned Man as travelling comrade 'for old acquaintance sake'; friends remark on his decline, showing patronizing fellowship.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1325–1326Basil, wearied by Gabriel's moody lovesickness, sends him off, then greets old companions with joy; a friend's burdensome sorrow and comradely reunion.read · scan
- p. 1326Fellowship in exile: strangers become friends through a common country; reunion feast of old comrades, friends clasping friends, shows good company and welcome to the friendless.read · scan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 977–979Ulysses rallies his old comrades to one last voyage, their shared heroic temper and loyalty binding them together as fellows in endeavor.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 84–85Dana feels warm regard for a chance acquaintance, Bill Jackson, whom he would gladly greet, calling him a hearty fellow and good shipmate; fellowship of shipmates and lasting impressions of a person.read · scan
- p. 112Dana and his friend S walk ashore together, sharing memories of friends at home and plans for return; companionship makes the hard voyage seem tolerable and cheerful.read · scan
- p. 248Shipboard code of manliness suppresses sympathy for the sick and mocks feeling for home and friends, showing how hard life strains tenderness.read · scan
- p. 314–315Shipmates compete to walk watch with the carpenter; long talk and exchange of life stories relieve the monotony, showing companionship through conversation.read · scan
Matthew Arnold, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1133–1134Companions swept away by the avalanche; the father who will not save himself alone but turns back for the weary, and the heroic "helpers and friends of mankind" show loyalty and fellowship in hardship.read · scan
9c.Parting, absence and remembered companions
See also: Love 7d · Life and Death 9a · Emotion 6c
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 50Menelaus honours Telemachus as son of a friend who suffered for his sake, imagines lifelong fellowship with Odysseus, and mourns the friend's lost return.read · scan
- p. 132–133Odysseus mourns his dear companions lost to the Laestrygons; glad to be saved yet grieved at loss of friends.read · scan
- p. 189Eumaeus's grief for his absent master, who loved and cared for him, shows loyalty and the sorrow of losing a beloved lord and friend.read · scan
Euripides, HippolytusVol. 8
- p. 351–353Departing Hippolytus calls on friends and fellows of his youth to give him godspeed; chorus wishes for fair friends and no deep sorrow.read · scan
Aristophanes, The FrogsVol. 8
- p. 439Dionysus longs for dead Euripides; Agathon is missed by his friends, showing the pang of losing companions.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 46–47Phaedo recounts the mixed laughing and weeping of Socrates' friends at his death and the pleasure of remembering a friend; shared grief and fellowship.read · scan
- p. 57–58Socrates consoles his companions at parting, saying he does not grieve because he expects to find other masters and friends as good in the world below.read · scan
- p. 112Phaedo's narrator weeps at losing such a companion as Socrates; grief of friends at parting shows loss of a friend, though the focus is Socrates' calm death.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On FriendshipVol. 9
- p. 10–11Introduces Laelius' grief at the death of Scipio, a very dear friend, and how a wise man bears such loss.read · scan
- p. 11–12Laelius on losing a friend: grief for the friend's death shows self-love rather than love of him; consolation lies in the friend's untouched good.read · scan
- p. 13Argues mourning Scipio's death would show envy rather than friendship, given his likely blessed state after death.read · scan
- p. 42–44Recalls Scipio's friendship: sympathy, counsel, shared life and learning; memory consoles loss; friendship is the greatest thing after virtue.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old AgeVol. 9
- p. 70–71Solon wants his death lamented by friends, taken as wishing to be beloved by them; Ennius contrasts this with refusing mourning.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters of CiceroVol. 9
- p. 94–95Cicero says his joy at return is incomplete without his friend's presence and embrace; recalls the friend's grief at their parting and his efforts to secure his return, and seeks his counsel.read · scan
- p. 107–110Cicero writes from affection, regrets that his engagements deprive both of each other's company, and hopes to enjoy shared excursions; letters should substitute for talk between friends.read · scan
- p. 111–113Cicero and Atticus exchange affectionate concern: he misses the absent friend, claims to love the friend's son as much, and helps look after his interests and connections.read · scan
- p. 133Mutual regret at parting shows the friends' affection; Cicero also carries out his friend's commissions and reports on the friend's sister in confidence.read · scan
- p. 141Cicero is delighted by his friend's letter teeming with affection and obliging kindness, and answers it carefully to please him.read · scan
- p. 168–169Cicero longs for his friend's coming; their conversation gives greater solace than any reasoning, and he wants to take counsel with him.read · scan
- p. 175–176Cicero chides a friend's silence, asks for letters even when there is nothing to say, and calls Brutus 'a second self'; affection shown through correspondence.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 87Aeneas unexpectedly sees his lost companions and longs to join hands with them, anxious for their fate.read · scan
- p. 91–93Aeneas embraces his lost companions on reunion, and Dido offers Trojans shared city and alliance as friendly powers; loyalty and joy of restored companions shown.read · scan
- p. 142–145Aeneas parts from Helenus and Andromache, hoping their kindred lines will live in concord and strive in acts of equal friendship, sharing fortunes good or bad.read · scan
- p. 197–202Anchises tells Aeneas to take his friend's wholesome counsel; Aeneas consults friends and royal host, and parting friends embrace in grief.read · scan
- p. 282Evander, embracing his departing friend Aeneas with tears, expresses the grief of parting and a wish to aid him.read · scan
- p. 355Aeneas mourns Pallas as a lost champion and friend, feeling bound by plighted faith to Evander, whose trust in him has been betrayed by the loss.read · scan
- p. 355Evander grieves for his son yet refuses to reproach his Trojan ally, honoring the alliance and Pallas's fellowship with Aeneas's friends. He asks vengeance from Turnus.read · scan
- p. 355Diomedes mourns companions lost after Troy and refuses gifts offered to buy his friendship, sending them to the Trojan king instead; he names the loss of comrades.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 195–197Pliny takes unenvious pleasure in his friends enjoying goods he cannot share, and anxiously asks a friend to write, even only to say nothing needs writing.read · scan
- p. 197–199Pliny's grief at losing Corellius, a friend whose moral watchfulness guided him; friends summoned to dissuade him, and Pliny seeks consolation from a friend.read · scan
- p. 211Pliny mourns Verginius Rufus, loved as a friend and guardian who treated him with a parent's affection; grief at the loss of a friend.read · scan
- p. 211Verginius's loyal support of Pliny in candidacies and trust in him above other friends; Pliny's grief and imagining him present.read · scan
- p. 215–216Pliny's ardent love for the dead youth Cottius and his grief at missing him, consoled by the statue.read · scan
- p. 244Pliny recounts events to an absent friend so he shares the pleasure, appealing to the friend's affection and shared interest in literature.read · scan
- p. 278–280Pliny's anxiety over a sick, absent loved one; longing for letters as the sweetness and pain of separation from someone dear.read · scan
- p. 298–299Pliny writes of longing for an absent loved one, sleepless and sick at heart, with habit drawing him to her chamber; also attends Varenus as a friend.read · scan
- p. 309–310Pliny's friend Quadratus is praised and rejoiced over; Pliny shares the pleasure of a friend's honour.read · scan
- p. 354–355Pliny trusts that a friend will not resent his absence from ceremonial observance, resting on steadfast love; friendship not dependent on ceremonial duties.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 48–49Loss of his dearest friend darkens Augustine's world: grief, restless longing and every place hateful; also the friend's sudden rebuke shows the strain within their bond.read · scan
- p. 51Grief for a lost friend leaves the soul restless and without repose; Augustine flees his country to avoid seeing reminders of him.read · scan
- p. 140–141Mourning Nebridius, his sweet friend, now in Abraham's bosom and not forgetful of him; comforting Verecundus as far as friendship permitted; awaiting Nebridius.read · scan
BeowulfVol. 49
- p. 53–55Beowulf and Hrothgar pledge mutual aid and loyalty; Hrothgar's love for Beowulf, the tears and kiss at parting, and shared hoards as tokens of love between peoples show friendship.read · scan
- p. 55–57Old Hrothgar, knowing he may never see Beowulf again, is wracked by secret longing for the man he loves; shows the pain of parting from a dear friend.read · scan
- p. 65–66The last survivor of his clan mourns his lost friends and kinsmen, lamenting the loss of comrades and the joys of fellowship.read · scan
- p. 88–91Mourners praise their dead lord as 'master-friend', saying it is right that men laud and love their chief when he departs; loss of a beloved leader.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 76The tailor friend waits anxiously through the night and rejoices at the prince's return, showing a friend's tender concern and loyalty.read · scan
The Song of RolandVol. 49
- p. 160–161Dying Olivier and Roland part in love, forgiving his blind blow; Roland mourns that none will equal his friend; grief at loss of a friend.read · scan
- p. 161–162Roland laments his dead comrade, recalling lifelong companionship without wrong done either way; also succors wounded Walter, a former friend and liegeman, in his need.read · scan
- p. 174–175Charlemagne calls for his fallen peers, and all weep for lost kin and friends, showing grief at the loss of companions.read · scan
- p. 180–182Charlemagne laments Roland as one without whom he is 'without a friend beneath the sky'; loss of the irreplaceable companion.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 238Dante meets his dead friend Forese, recognizes him by voice, and grieves at his altered face; friendship persisting beyond death.read · scan
- p. 239–240Forese and Dante, called brother, recall shared past; Forese's widow's prayers aid him, showing loyal affection and remembrance between friends across death.read · scan
Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy GrailVol. 35
- p. 112–114Arthur laments the breaking of the Round Table fellowship by the Grail vows; he loved his knights as his life and grieves their parting.read · scan
- p. 197Percivale and Galahad part weeping and kissing, hoping to meet again soon; shows the grief of separation between fellow knights.read · scan
- p. 211–213Galahad takes leave of his companions with kisses; Percivale and Bors grieve his death, and Launcelot pledges Bors faithful, unfailing help.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 224Utopians believe the dead remain present among friends they were joined to by mutual love, a bond of charity that death increases rather than diminishes.read · scan
William Roper, The Life of Sir Thomas MoreVol. 36
- p. 125Kingston, More's dear friend, weeps at parting and More comforts him; More also hopes his judges will meet him as friends in heaven, like Paul and Stephen.read · scan
- p. 125Pope, More's singular friend, brings news of execution and weeps at leaving; More comforts him, showing loyalty and sorrow at parting from a friend.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, The Author to the ReaderVol. 32
- p. 4Book written for kinsfolk and friends so that, after his death, they may keep a lively knowledge of him; friendship as remembrance.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, Of FriendshipVol. 32
- p. 83–84Rare true friendship exceeds philosophers' precepts; Montaigne mourns the loss of his friend, which makes the rest of his life a shadow.read · scan
- p. 84–85Grief at losing his friend: feels only half himself, praises the friend's excellence in the duties of friendship.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 91–92Affection toward friends, kindred and children ends with mortal life; the blessed keep no return of earthly attachment to friends.read · scan
William Shakespeare, Songs and SonnetsVol. 40
- p. 270–271Remembering a dear friend restores all losses, including friends dead; the beloved friend gathers up lost loves and friendships.read · scan
- p. 271–273Addresses the beloved as friend; asks to be remembered lovingly after death despite poor verse, and keeps affection though he falls away.read · scan
- p. 278Addresses the beloved as fair friend whose beauty never ages in the speaker's eyes; absence makes even spring seem winter.read · scan
Christopher Marlowe, Edward the SecondVol. 46
- p. 17–19Edward laments the banishment of the friend he loves, defies church and peers for him, and urges Gaveston to bear separation patiently; loss of a friend through outside pressure.read · scan
- p. 19Parting scene: Edward and Gaveston exchange pictures, each says exile is banishment from self; grief of separation, promises of constancy despite the peers' anger.read · scan
- p. 22–25Edward mourns Gaveston's absence, would give his crown to regain 'so dear a friend'; on his return he offers reconciliation and companionship to the nobles.read · scan
- p. 47–48Edward grieves for 'my friend, my dearest Gaveston' whom no ransom can save; the king's devotion to a favourite and his rewarding of loyal followers show loyalty and love.read · scan
- p. 66–68Edward bids farewell to life with his friends; Spencer and Baldock mourn the loss of their sovereign as the sunshine of their life; Leicester praised as kind and loving.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The TempestVol. 46
- p. 429–430Trinculo and Stephano's reunion, each thought drowned, shows glad relief at a lost friend restored; Trinculo appeals to himself as 'thy good friend'.read · scan
Thomas Hobbes, Of Man, Being the First Part of LeviathanVol. 34
- p. 342–343Lists weeping for the loss of friends, or for their unkindness, as an instance of sudden dejection at losing external support.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. John DonneVol. 15
- p. 345–346Donne gladly renews intermitted friendship with old companions of Lincoln's Inn, who requite him with love and courtesies in a 'love-strife' of gratitude.read · scan
- p. 353Donne sends memorial seals to his dearest friends as tokens of affection; Walton enumerates his friends and benefactors, including deceased ones, as a mark of esteem.read · scan
- p. 363Donne reflects on friends lost to death and on requiting friends who showed him kindness in poverty, as gratitude and reciprocity.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George HerbertVol. 15
- p. 383–384Long entire friendship of Herbert, Wotton and Donne; Donne's gift of a seal to valued friends, kept by Herbert as a memorial of his dear friend.read · scan
- p. 393–394Old, dear friend Woodnot travels to rejoice at Herbert's health and marriage and shares his days; fellowship and shared joy of friends.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 326Browne laments being parted from his friend and says friendly dreams console him, imagining himself in his friend's arms; shows the pain of absence.read · scan
Pierre Corneille, PolyeucteVol. 26
- p. 90Pauline calls Severus 'my only friend' as they part, joining in mutual support against their shared torment and asking him to help her keep her duty.read · scan
- p. 105–109Polyeucte invokes the martyred Nearchus as his friend in heaven, asking him to plead that he may stand beside him; friendship enduring beyond death.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written at Horton, 1632-1638Vol. 4
- p. 72Lycidas elegy: mourns a lost friend, recalling shared youth as fellow shepherds; grief at his death shows the depth of companionship and loss.read · scan
Abraham Cowley, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 366–368Cowley's elegy mourns a dearest friend: shared nights of study and poetry, the love between them, and the desolation and loneliness his death leaves.read · scan
- p. 368–369Continues the elegy for the dead friend, praising his virtue, wit and piety, and noting he never forgot his friends; the speaker's loss is felt.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 89–90Pilgrims welcome Evangelist with gratitude for his ancient kindness and labor for their good; his company is desired and he rejoices in their victories.read · scan
- p. 161Heaven promises reunion with friends who went before and joyful welcome of those who follow, presenting friendship as continuing beyond death.read · scan
- p. 180Christiana grieves the broken loving bond with her husband, her 'dear Friend', and is stricken with guilt over her unkindness and hardness toward him: loss and remorse.read · scan
John Dryden, All for Love; or, The World Well LostVol. 18
- p. 55–57Dolabella's return: friends 'so one', his silent withdrawal to avoid grieving his friend, Antony's joyful embrace, and Dolabella's claim that a friend must speak hard truths.read · scan
- p. 94–100Antony pictures death welcoming him like a familiar friend who needs no warning at the door.read · scan
Matthew Prior, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 396–398Poet hopes to remain friends with the child Miss Mary despite rivals and age; also notes John's publicizing of a favour, leaving obligation quit.read · scan
Joseph Addison, Westminster AbbeyVol. 27
- p. 79Friends bestow extravagant epitaphs on the dead, praise that would embarrass the deceased; friends' partiality in commemoration.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 38–39Watson's death in Franklin's arms, mourned as the best of the set; Osborne's pact that the first to die would visit the other goes unfulfilled.read · scan
Samuel Johnson, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 503–504Elegy for Levet, 'of every friendless name the friend': loyal, unpretentious kindness to the forsaken; social comforts drop away as friends die.read · scan
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingVol. 37
- p. 327–328The picture of an absent friend enlivens our idea of him and our passions; we take pleasure in viewing a friend's portrait.read · scan
Oliver Goldsmith, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 505Companions remembered after death: Dick's provoking yet missed mirth, so friends wish him back despite his faults; affectionate, candid portraits of friends.read · scan
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulVol. 24
- p. 33–34Menelaus's grief over the fate of his lost friends is used to show that grief for a lost object is pleasurable to indulge.read · scan
Edmund Burke, A Letter to a Noble LordVol. 24
- p. 417In old age friendship's consolation lies in friends lost; Burke mourns Keppel, who as faithful companion and counsellor would have defended him.read · scan
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 555Life addressed as a long companion; parting is hard 'when friends are dear', using friendship to express the pain of parting.read · scan
Charles Dibdin, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 502Tom Bowling's friends were many and true-hearted; loss of a beloved shipmate mourned in his crew's company.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust, Part IVol. 19
- p. 9Poet mourns lost friends and first love; the friends who heard his early songs are dead or scattered, and their absence makes new applause a pang.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, EgmontVol. 19
- p. 330–331Egmont tells Ferdinand that friends remain present in death and bids him live cheerfully; Ferdinand asks whether Egmont had no friends to warn him.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and DorotheaVol. 19
- p. 408The departing youth's farewell laments that in upheaval 'friend is parted from friend'; he counsels loving those who love her and gratitude for kindness, on the pain of separation.read · scan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for ScandalVol. 18
- p. 127–128Sir Peter looks forward to reunion with old friend Sir Oliver after sixteen years, recalling shared days and railing at matrimony together.read · scan
- p. 139–140Old friends Sir Peter and Sir Oliver reunite after fifteen years; they should not begin with grievances; Rowley notes Charles still has one friend left.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 42–44Mourns the ewe Mailie as a faithful friend and neighbour, whose loyalty and affection the bard misses; her dying charge urges her children to be kind to one another.read · scan
- p. 189–192Poem on a gift from a lady, a flattering mark of friendship kind; he will remember the giver in the gift and wish her a Friend above.read · scan
- p. 215–217Farewell to Masonic lodge brothers: companions of social joy, remembered with warm affection despite parting; fellowship and its loss through separation.read · scan
- p. 217–220Mourning a departed companion and boon fellow ('billie'); his loss felt by convivial friends who will toast him from afar.read · scan
- p. 222–224Bequeaths his friendship to a patron 'when ye've naething'; farewell to Smith, 'my bosom frien'', asking him to befriend Jean; loyalty and trust.read · scan
- p. 267–269Elegy lamenting departure of patron-friend Willie Creech; all joy fled, vows never to forget him, wishes him blessing; grief at a friend's absence.read · scan
- p. 269–271Mourner contrasts dying among weeping friends with dying far removed from loved friends; grief for Stella, his friend and only joy.read · scan
- p. 316–318'Auld Lang Syne': remembrance of old acquaintance, shared boyhood, separation by seas, clasped hands and a cup of kindness affirming enduring fellowship.read · scan
- p. 334–335Epistle to an old comrade sending heart-warm love and good wishes to schoolfellows and acquaintances, showing affection and remembrance among friends.read · scan
- p. 386–388Elegy invokes Friendship's sacred call, for which one would resign life, as reason to mourn kind Matthew; also a comic query about Grose among his friends or foes.read · scan
- p. 402–403Bard laments Glencairn, his last and best friend and benefactor, who raised him from obscurity; vows lasting remembrance and gratitude, mourning the friend's death.read · scan
- p. 419–421Exile's lament at being driven from friends and land; hopes that friendship, love and peace be restored, treating separation from friends as loss of delight.read · scan
- p. 425–426Dying soldiers bid farewell to 'loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties'; death severs friendship's bonds.read · scan
- p. 437–439Enslaved exile bitterly remembers friends most dear, showing the pain of separation from friends.read · scan
- p. 449–451Toast to absent friends and 'friends on baith sides o' the firth'; fellowship over a bumper as loyalty to those away.read · scan
- p. 486–488Sonnet mourning the death of his friend Riddell; nature's gaiety cannot console, and memory of loss remains; also a mocking epigram on friends embalming a heart.read · scan
William Wordsworth, Appendix to Lyrical BalladsVol. 39
- p. 295Cowper's quoted verses express an exile's longing to know that distant friends still think of him, though he will never see them; friendship surviving separation.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 602–604Matthew laments not being loved enough; the young friend offers to be a son to him, but consolation fails. Friendship's limits before grief.read · scan
- p. 604–606Addresses Beaumont as friend, who would have been friend to the poet's drowned brother; friendship and loss.read · scan
- p. 635–639Addresses his sister as 'dearest Friend', finding his former self in her; trusts Nature and remembered shared moments to sustain her, showing companionship, memory and future separation.read · scan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 731–732The speaker keeps a sleepless vigil and wishes peaceful sleep and joy for a dear friend, 'friend devoutest of my choice'.read · scan
Charles Lamb, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 735–736Laments lost companions and old familiar faces; the speaker regrets abruptly leaving a kind friend, and longs for a bosom friend as close as a brother.read · scan
Thomas Campbell, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 774–776Old age brings grief as friends go one by one, leaving bosoms bleeding; loss of friends colors the sense of time.read · scan
Thomas Moore, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 816–818Memory laments friends who have fallen like leaves, leaving the speaker alone in a deserted hall; also friends near make a beloved vale dearer, and hearts mingle in peace.read · scan
- p. 818–820Laments decay of friendships and loss of true hearts, asking who would inhabit a bleak world alone; also the pang of parting from those we love.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 552–553Renzo and his friend, reunited after two years of plague, discover their friendship is deeper than when they met daily; kindly feeling is a cordial to the heart.read · scan
- p. 564–565Plague fear reduces friends meeting in the street to silent, hasty salutes at a distance; fellowship strained by contagion.read · scan
- p. 637–638Separation from the hospitable friend is tender, even to tears, with promises to visit; affection and attachment make parting painful.read · scan
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household TalesVol. 17
- p. 215The children and bear grow so familiar that they call him their 'black friend', and Snow-white is sorry at his parting, showing companionship and its loss.read · scan
George Gordon, Lord Byron, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 792–794Solitude loses its praise because the beloved is absent; Nature is called 'my early friend' and stands in for a sister.read · scan
William Cullen Bryant, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1219–1221Laments the loss of earlier friends yielded to the Past, and hopes the friends he loves will linger and mourn at his grave; grief over lost friends.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CompensationVol. 5
- p. 102Losing friends by death or separation seems pure loss but later proves compensating, freeing growth and bringing new acquaintances; we cling to old friends too long.read · scan
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, MontaigneVol. 32
- p. 108Montaigne put his passion into friendship, immortalising his love for La Boétie, lost after four years of the sweetest and closest intimacy.read · scan
- p. 110–111Montaigne excepts his friend La Boétie from his judgment that no man combines great qualities; the friend as uniquely admirable, cut off by early death.read · scan
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, What Is a Classic?Vol. 32
- p. 130Imagined fellowship of great poets in good company, including Horace regretting separation from a dear friend, and Cervantes and Molière as indulgent friends and benefactors.read · scan
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 924Addresses the beloved as 'my friend': no worldly jars or seas could part them, their bond outlasting separation and unlike destinies.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1291–1292Remembered old friendships return with early loves as part of the poet's nostalgic recollection of youth.read · scan
Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic PrincipleVol. 28
- p. 381–383Poem imagines loving friends lingering at the poet's grave and rejoicing to recall him, showing remembrance and the affection of friends after death.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 503–504Names the loss of the society of every old friend as a chief cost of a long voyage, partly eased by anticipating the return home.read · scan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 986Bedivere mourns the dissolved Round Table, going forth companionless; Arthur bids him pray for him and for those who call men friend, a bond of loyalty.read · scan
William Makepeace Thackeray, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1058–1059Thackeray notes that we all mourn dear friends untimely killed, friend loss as part of life's common grief.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 38Describes the loss of a shipmate at sea: constant close company makes his absence felt like losing a limb, since habit made his presence almost necessary.read · scan
- p. 143Dana records a lasting attachment and affection for the kind-hearted Sandwich Islanders, a feeling that would make him travel far to see them.read · scan
- p. 195Kanaka friends greet Dana gladly on his return and salute him as their Ai\ane, showing lasting loyalty and fellowship over the pipe.read · scan
- p. 241Dana feels affection for the old brig and welcome from former shipmates, which link him to home; attachment to old companions is shown but only lightly.read · scan
- p. 267Regret at parting from watchmate Harris after long shared watches and talk; rejoicing with friend S at going home together shows fellowship and its loss.read · scan
- p. 269–271Dana's affection for Kanaka friends, felt like for kin, makes parting the one painful thing; they exchange heartfelt farewells and mutual kindness.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Twenty-Four Years AfterVol. 23
- p. 382–383Reunion with old acquaintance Captain Wilson, hours of shared reminiscence over old times, revives fellowship; Dana later calls him a friend after the voyage together.read · scan
- p. 398–400Dana visits the grave of his kinsman, classmate and friend at Penang, mourning a friend's loss; also French John's death unanswered by any loyal voice.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 98Compares books to a sensible friend's talk and letters; writing to a distant friend is a conveyance of voice, unlike the permanence of a true book.read · scan
James Russell Lowell, Abraham LincolnVol. 28
- p. 449Lincoln's death felt by multitudes as loss of a friendly presence, leaving lives colder; shared sympathy among strangers as kinship, showing loss of a beloved figure.read · scan
Walt Whitman, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1414–1416Mourner grieves the dead comrade he loved, wondering how to honor his grave; loss of a beloved companion shown through elegiac tribute.read · scan
Matthew Arnold, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1130–1132Companions who set out together falter and are lost in the storm; the survivors are left alone, showing loss of friends on life's hard journey.read · scan
William Johnson Cory, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1113–1114Elegy for a dead friend: grief at his loss, remembered talk that outlasts death, and clinging to human companions and a friend's remembered voice over ideal heavens.read · scan
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