Evidently friendship progressed quickly in this quiet glen, and guests living beneath the same roof accepted each other in simple, natural fashion, as members of a common household.
Nor did our own nobility only value and favour him, but his acquaintance and friendship was sought for by most Ambassadors of foreign nations, and by many other strangers whose learning or business occasioned their stay in this nation.
For where else can friendship be met, but joined with fidelity and modesty, and the intercommunication of virtue alone?
But to learn what this friendship is, throw a bit of meat between them, and you will see.
But I can better understand that she should receive the admiration of a gentleman than the affectionate friendship of a lady.
He had never quite trusted the note which he had got from his friend Chiltern, and had made up his mind that, to say the least of it, there had been very little friendship shown in the letter.
If there had been hypocrisy in her friendship the hypocrisy must be maintained to the end.
Lady Laura Kennedy had been allowed to take no active part in the manifestations of friendship which at this time were made on behalf of Phineas Finn.
She had persuaded herself that there had existed a warm friendship between them;--but of what nature could have been a friendship with one whom she had not known till he had been in his dotage?
I tried to use the accident, to make his friendship for you as thorough as my own.
His lordship was one of those terrible political burdens, engendered originally by private friendship or family considerations, which one Minister leaves to another.
Violet has told me of the meeting between you and Madame Goesler, and says that the old friendship seems to have been perfectly re-established.
As it was there had been something of romance in it,--though the romance of friendship at the bedside of a sick and selfish old man had hardly been satisfactory.
Don't you think that your friendship is more to me than all the diamonds in London?
Some people remembered that during the last autumn he and his wife had stayed three months at Portray Castle, and declared that the friendship between them and Lady Eustace had been very useful.
And, after all, of what matter to you is the friendship or enmity of Mr. Gresham?
Friendship rarely regains the ground lost in them.
Lord Minto, whose friendship for Nelson was of proof, wrote eighteen months after this to his wife: "She goes on cramming Nelson with trowelfuls of flattery, which he goes on taking as quietly as a child does pap.
This was done on account of the detestation of the wicked business, as much as on account of his friendship for me.
Their travel-worn appearance, their attachment for each other, the joy that the tokens of friendship afforded them, the description they gave of incidents on the road, made an impression not soon to be effaced.
He was strengthened in his course by a warm friendship and frequent intercourse with the late Abraham L.
Duterte and Mrs. Williams, who generously performed the offices of charity and friendship at his burial.
This accounts for his friendship with a man so much his senior as the late Charlie.
Sooner mayst thou trust thy purse to a professional pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to which the heart never mounts in dew!
So many my obligations to your kindness, that you will be forced to remember me whenever you recall the not "painful subjects" of early friendship and lasting gratitude.
Yet the savage deceived by false friendship is likely to pay for his mistake with his life; whereas even in the most civilised societies men are not put to death for mathematical incompetence.
Those born under him are gloomy and reserved—faithful in friendship but bitter toward an enemy.
Tommy murmured into Butler's ear: "I have known you but a short time, but we are in sympathy, and already I feel a very great friendship for you.
It did not take him long to realise that he would be the gainer by a friendship with this kindly giant: it would be a partnership of brain and muscle.
It is precisely because you and Juve are on such intimate terms--this friendship between you is a fine thing--that I should like you to use your influence with Juve.
To be accepted not on His own account, not because of the truth He spoke, not because His greatness was perceived and His friendship valued, but because of the wonders He performed--this could not be a pleasant experience.
Can thefriendship of Christ do us harm, or retard us in any good thing?
We do not greatly value the visits of a person who cannot get on without our advice or assistance; we value the friendship of him who seeks our company for the pleasure he finds in it.
Has He not sufficiently shown the reality of His thirst for our friendship and trust?
He thus gave to the man assurance of a friendship outweighing in value what he had lost.
Wheeling suddenly around, we saw a boy eighteen years of age or thereabouts, who was regarding us with an expression which might equally well have been one of friendship or enmity.
The demands of friendship must not be allowed to interfere with the dictates of duty.
The Wreck ofFriendship They parted--ne'er to meet again!
Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
A perfect friendship would not have room for such grudging sympathy, but would rejoice more for the other's success than for his own.
Besides, the value of having some definite principle by which to test friendship is not confined to the positive attachments made.
Friendship may lapse through the misfortune of distance.
After all it defeats itself; for there can only be friendship between equals.
This friendship with the Lord knows no fear of loss; neither life, nor death, nor things present, nor things to come can separate us.
The wreck of friendship is also a blow to religion.
The word friendship has been abased by applying it to low and unworthy uses, and so there is plenty of copy still to be got from life by the cynic and the satirist.
A simple generous friendship will thus add to the joy, and will divide the sorrow.
The Fruits of Friendship In our utilitarian age things are judged by their practical value.
Till we learn what a sacred thing a true friendship is, it is futile to speak of the culture of friendship.
It is an abuse of the word friendship to apply it to such social scrambling.
Besides this cosmic and perhaps somewhat shadowy benefit, there are many practical fruits of friendship to the individual.
I have not been able to discover yet whether Terwilliger has renewed his friendship with Limber Tim.
That was like Cynthia, and I am sure that the loss of her friendshipcan only be a benefit to you.
I beg your pardon for every unkind thing I have thought or said about you, and if you will accept myfriendship it's yours forever.
Meantime the old king, having invited the Burgundians to a banquet, is surprised to see the princes arrive fully armed, but tries to show his friendship by promising they shall bring up his son.
Esteem andfriendship with his wonder rise, And free to Gama all his kingdom lies.
But, rather than cross swords with the slayer of a dragon, Gunnar offered the stranger his hand infriendship and sent for his sister to give him the cup of welcome.
In token of friendship and to enable Ulysses to reach home quickly, Aeolus bottled up all the contrary winds, letting loose only those which would speed him on his way.
The friendship then cemented between Adrian and his young deliverer lasted through the remainder of their lives without any serious interruption.
Judging from the pages of Carew, in the seventeenth century, with all its grossness and barbarism, there was much real friendship and happy intercourse amongst the people, possibly more than there is now.
She was wont to defend their friendship by saying she detested little men, whilst he complained that great, tall, awkward women he abhorred.
Yet for money, claret, and patronage, they lend their countenance, assistance, and friendship to the Ministers who are the stern and inflexible enemies to the emancipation of Ireland!
His wit brought friends, and the marriage of his eldest brother with Lord Holland's aunt quickened the growth of a strong friendship with Lord Holland.
Our friendship is now of forty years' standing; you know me to be a truly religious man; but I shudder to see religion treated like a cockade, or a pint of beer, and made the instrument of a party.
Now that the hysterical excitement over his return had passed, she judged it better to let their friendship lapse.
As his friendship with the Marstons began to wane, he would become increasingly every year an employee and not an associate.
And when they said good-night to each other on the stairs Gerald could not help wondering whether, in the evening that had just passed, their friendship had not reached the limit of its tether.
There had been a time in the early days of their friendship when he had confided in him, under an oath of secrecy, that he hoped to marry her as soon as his position permitted.
She did not want any repetition of that disastrous evening, and thought that it would be easier to resume their friendship on its old basis after the long interval of the summer term.
It is not easy to explain the friendship of two men.
His friendship knew no bounds; his liberality was as boundless; and so chagrined was he at the defeat I had experienced, that he left the next morning without an adieu.
Those things I think proper to mention to you, as I know your friendship for Boyd, that you may take an opportunity of mentioning them to him, when you are with him, which I hope will be soon.
The closest ties of friendship united the Stuarts and the Radcliffes, even from their earliest infancy.
Accept of my sincere thanks for your friendship and good services to me.
Whatever doubts may have existed in the mind of Charles Edward as to the fidelity of his General, are silenced by the long and hopeless exile of Lord George Murray, and by the continued friendship of the Chevalier St. George.
For permission to publish this I am indebted to the valued friendship of my brother-in-law, Samuel Coltman, Esq.
This act of friendship Flora felt as much as any that she received, for she had suffered as much from the state of idleness during her being in custody, as from any other privation.
It was during the year 1788, when he was living in retirement at Strawberry, that his auspicious friendship was formed.
Friend out of this world it had been better; for 'the Lord thy God is a jealous God,' and we go on seeking humanfriendship and neglecting the divine till it is too late.
In Edinburgh, Sydney Smith formed the intimate acquaintance of Lord Jeffrey, and that acquaintance ripened into a friendship only closed by death.
The friendship of worthy, sensible men he looked upon as one of the greatest pleasures in life.
There was, however, another Kitty between whom and Horace a tender friendship subsisted: this was Kitty Clive, the famous actress; formerly Kitty Ruftar.
Between Lord Holland and Sydney Smith the most cordial friendship existed; and the eccentric and fascinating Lady Holland was his constant correspondent.
