Of Friendship is a philosophical essay concerning the nature of friendship and the effects of the absence of friendship. Bacon lists three virtues of friendship: goodness, utility, and delight. Summing up these virtues, he says that true friendship consists in a man's finding another with whom he caRead more
Of Friendship is a philosophical essay concerning the nature of friendship and the effects of the absence of friendship. Bacon lists three virtues of friendship: goodness, utility, and delight.
Summing up these virtues, he says that true friendship consists in a man’s finding another with whom he can delight in doing what is good for its own sake. But in his experience, true friendship is not easy to achieve.
He goes on to say that even among friends there is often a great deal of unkindness, or at least indifference; and this is because friends do not always perceive each other’s merits as clearly as they perceive their faults. So, it is important for a man to have some means by which he can recognize and reward the efforts of his friends. That is why he has invented money.
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Humour: In Charles Lamb's essay "Dream Children: A Reverie," he humorously recounts a dream in which he has two children, a boy and a girl, who he imagines are his own. He playfully muses about how the children would look, sound, and act, and how they would bring joy to his life. He imagines how theRead more
Humour: In Charles Lamb’s essay “Dream Children: A Reverie,” he humorously recounts a dream in which he has two children, a boy and a girl, who he imagines are his own. He playfully muses about how the children would look, sound, and act, and how they would bring joy to his life. He imagines how they would play together and how he would watch them with a “pleasure ever new.”
Pathos: Lamb also expresses a deep sense of regret and sadness throughout the essay. He realizes that, as a bachelor, he will never have children of his own, and this regret is palpable in his dream. He alludes to this regret when describing how he imagined the children “growing up to be a comfort to me in my age.” The sense of sadness is further amplified when he recounts how he would have to wake up from the dream and realize that the children were not real.
Summary of Dream Children
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