...outlasted his understanding, Bolingbroke replied, ' " It has so ! I never in my life knew a man that had so tender a heart for his particular friends or a...thirty years, and value myself more for that man's love than " — sinking his head and losing himself in tears.' His sorrow was speedily changed to anger....

...but his main emotion was grief at the death of his friend: "I never in my life knew a man that had so tender a heart for his particular friends, or a more general friendship for mankind."56 Addison's and Pope's final hours resemble many eighteenthcentury deathbed scenes. The dying...

...out lasted understanding. Lord B said it has so & then added I never in my life knew a man that had so tender a heart for his particular friends or a...thirty years and value myself more for that man's love than — Sinking his head & losing his voice in tears. [Quoted in the lecture on Prior, Gay, and Pope,...

...said Lord Bolingbroke, and then he added, Spence tells us, " I never in my life knew a man who had so tender a heart for his particular friends, or a...thirty years and value myself more for that man's love than — " Bolingbroke's voice was lost in tears, his head sank and he could say no more. Just before...

...understanding, Lord Bolingbroke said, ' It was so,' and then added, ' I never in my life knew a man who had so tender a heart for his particular friends, or a...have known him these thirty years, and value myself on that man's love more than ' " {[sinking his head, and losing his voice in tears], J It is impossible...

...warm assertion of Bolingbroke, when the poet was dying, that he never knew a man in his life who had so tender a heart for his particular friends, or a more general friendship for mankind. ' In all Savage's misfortunes,' says Mr. Carruthers, ' Pope evinced an active and unwearied sympathy,'...