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2 in works of Imagination — The Maid of CORINTH — The Portrait — Friendships formed in Religious Institutions — Its pleasures in solitude — Its sacrifices — exemplified by VIRGIL — by ALEXANDER — SCIPIO and LÆLIUS — Dissipated minds incapable of true Friendships — The pursuits of fashionable life inimical to true Friendship — Exhortation — Friendship strongest among the ancients — The Theban band — The Scythian hordes — Their warlike confederacy — ACHILLES and PATROCLUS — NISUS and EURYALUS — DAMON and PYTHIAS — PYLADES and ORESTES — SANS SOUCI — EPAMINONDAS and PELOPIDAS — ATTICUS — Royalty unfavorable to the formation of