… an Aviary of Nightingales . You must understand, says the Knight, there is nothing in the World that pleases a Man in Love so much as your Nightingale. Ah, Mr. Spectator! the many Moon-light Nights that I have walked by my self, and …
Friendship
[ Social interaction / Character / Feelings & Emotions ]
… by his own friend and biographer James Boswell , he ultimately accepted Mary Knowles’s counter-argument that Jesus loved one disciple (John) more than any other and thus that particular friendship could be compatible with a broader …
Benevolence | Family | Literature | Morality | Philosophy
… He relaxes in the feast of reason, in the intercourses of society, in the sweets of friendship, in the endearments of love, in the exercise (…) of all the benevolent and generous affections (…)’. 8 7 . Stephen Tomkins, The Clapham Sect: …