 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 pàgines
...the glazing eye " of Pope, and inspired him with pious and penitential fervour. He said afterwards, " there is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and, indeed, friendship itself is but a part of virtue." Hooke whispered this to Bolingbroke at table, and the peer answered, " Why,... | |
 | Joseph SPENCE - 1858 - 488 pàgines
...me in mind of it."* In the morning, after the priest had given hijn the last sacraments ; he said, " There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and...indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue." [When Mr. Hooke whispered this to Lord Bolingbroke, at table, he said aloud ; " Why, to be sure, that... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pàgines
...immortal, that I seem to feel it within me as it were by intuition.' Another of his dying remarks was, ' There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and...indeed, friendship itself is only a part of virtue.' Pope died at Twickenham, on the thirtieth of May, 1744, having just passed the fifty-sixth year of... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1858 - 454 pàgines
...it."* In the morning, after the priest had given him the last sacraments ; he said, " There is-nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship ; and...indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue." [When Mr. Hooke whispered this to Lord Bolingbroke, at table, he said aloud ; " Why, to be sure, that... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1858 - 442 pàgines
...me in mind of it."* In the morning, after the priest had given him the last sacraments; he said, " There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and indeed friendship itself is oidy a part of virtue." [ When Mr. Hooke whispered this to Lord Bolingbroke, at table, he said aloud;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1859 - 352 pàgines
...kneeling on the floor.11 In the morning after it had been administered to him by the priest, he said, "There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and...friendship ; and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue."8 Pope expired on the 30th of May, 1744, about eleven o'clock at night: yielding his breath... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1861 - 368 pàgines
...Bolingbroke wept over this wreck of the friend of thirty years' standing. Pope's last words were : "There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and...indeed, friendship itself is only a part of virtue." * He died expressing his belief in a future state. We wish all the dealings of one great man with another... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 pàgines
...kneeling on the floor.2 In the morning after it had been administered to him by the priest, he said, "There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and...friendship ; and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue."3 Pope expired on the 30th of May, 1744, about eleven o'clock at night: yielding his breath... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 pàgines
...in dying ! ' LOCKE. ' Cease now.' [To Lady Marsham, who had been reading the Psalms to him.] POPE. ' irty years. They kept a public-house at Poplar, and the ' wife," when on her death-bed, for the f but apart of virtue.' GENERAL WOLFE. ' What, do they run already P then I die happy.' Alluding to the... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pàgines
...to him, said, " Cease now." Pope's last words read like part of one of his own essays in prose—" There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and indeed friendship itself is a part of virtue." Calmly and quietly did Addison say "Behold with what tranquility a Christian can... | |
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In the morning, after the priest had given him the last sacraments, he said, "There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue. 
