| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 páginas
...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 friendship; and, indeed, friendship itself i- only a port of virtue.' He died at Twickenham on the 30th. of Hay, 1741. The character anil genius... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...thank you for putting me in mind of it.' In the morning, after the last sacraments had been given, he said, 'There is nothing that is meritorious but...indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.' He died on a summer's evening, in the month of flowers, in 1744; so quietly that the attendants could... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 páginas
...secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake, o. POPE — Temple of Fame. Line 364. BAYLY— ./'ci be ч Butterfly. heart; INSECTS. The...wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and p. POPE— Un His Dfolh-BeJ. Johnson's Life of Pope. The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 páginas
...immortal that I seem to feel it in me, as it were, by intuition." Another of his dying remarks was, " The form that once was dear! The spirit is not there...that dead eye, Which throbbed in that cold heart, Whi Pope's example teaches us that the patient labor of the artist must supplement genius for the production... | |
| Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 páginas
...neighbor. If I were to begin the world again, and knew just what I know now, I would never write a verse. There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship ; and, indeed, friendship is only a part of virtue. DR. P ORSON. [Richard Person, an eminent Greek scholar; born in Norwich,... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 páginas
...receive the last sacrament kneeling on the floor. On the following morning he said:—'There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship ; and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.' Pope expired about eleven o'clock at night on the 30th of May 1744—passing away so peacefully that... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 páginas
...do not really admire and will never imitate their virtue. 5678 Plutarch : Lives. Cato the Younger. There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and...indeed, friendship itself is only a part of virtue. 5679 Pope : Life of Pope, by Johnson. On his Deathbed. When men grow virtuous in their old age, they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 páginas
...Pope, p. 510. 2 Ibid. p. 540. 3 Ed. Singer, p. 319. In the morning, after the priest had given him the last sacraments, he said, " There is nothing that...indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue." He died in the evening of the thirtieth day of May, 1744, so placidly, that the attendants did not... | |
| Henry Clay Trumbull - 1891 - 424 páginas
...And in the closing moments of his life, after he had received the last sacrament from a priest, Pope said : " There is nothing that is meritorious but...indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue." Friendship certainly had its part in inspiring and shaping the poet Thomson. Mr. Riccaulton, a friend... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 páginas
...mind of it." He had undoubting confidence in a future state. Shortly after receiving the sacrament, he said, "There is nothing that is meritorious but...indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue." He lies buried at Twickenham. usual amount of clothing. But his face was pleasing, his voice agreeable,... | |
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