...David, after hearing of the death of Jonathan, laments "I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." The phrase "passing the love of women" was frequently used in Victorian...

...publicly paid special tribute to Jonathan by wailing, "I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me. Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." I wouldn't understand the true nature of the relationship between these...

...if ought but death part thee and me." 2 Samuel 1:26 "I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." Proverbs 17:17 "A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for...

...intimacy between David and his 'friend' Jonathan, as expressed in 2 Samuel 1.26: 'My brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women' (KJV). To illustrate that, in the nineteenth century, this phrase would...

...never have fully recovered. He turned to 2 Samuel 1.26: 'I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan, very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women'. To his father, almost a year later, he was lacking in the normal filial...

...provisions for his son. 2. Grieve when Jonathan was in trouble. 3, To eulogize him after his death, "Very pleasant hast thou been unto me." "Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of a woman." "How are the mighty fallen." "In death, they were not divided." "WE WILL...

...expressing David's personal grief for his loss of Jonathan, "I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." Eight extend it, recalling Granville's laboriousness. Seven of the ten...

...Reads the inscription:) PT "Death came one bright summer's day and took our dearest friend away" EMILY "Very pleasant hast thou been unto me thy love to me was wonderful" PT "Until the day break and the shadows flee away" EMILY "Morning is here earth's flooded with light...

...battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places, I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished! "8 Notes on...

...so that "he loved him as his own soul?"21 "I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan," he says; "very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women."22 What woe was upon that "young man," "of a beautiful countenance and goodly...