Careful Words

generous (adj.)

Genteel in personage,

Conduct, and equipage;

Noble by heritage,

Generous and free.

Henry Carey (1663-1743): The Contrivances. Act i. Sc. 2.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows,

Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 725.