was remarkable, leaning against Mr. Pope's chair; and crying over him for a considerable time, with more concern than can be expressed.-Spence.] [On the 27th, speaking of his having so little to leave, he quoted two of his own verses very properly, on his whole life having been divided between carelessness and care.— Hooke.] It was on this same day that he requested to be brought to the table where we were sitting at dinner; his appearance was such, that we all thought him dying. Mrs. Anne Arbuthnot involuntarily exclaimed; "Lord, have mercy upon us! this is quite an Egyptian feast."-Spence, (from Papers.) "O great God! what is man?" said Lord B. looking on Mr. Pope and repeating it several times, interrupted with sobs. Upon Mr. Cheselden saying, "There is no hope for him here; our only hope for him must be-." Lord Bolingbroke said," Pshaw !—we can only reason from what is, we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." When I was telling his Lordship, that Mr. Pope, on every catching and recovery of his mind, was always saying something kindly either of his present or his absent friends; and that this was so surprising, that it seemed to me as if his humanity had outlasted his understanding.-Lord B. said;" ;-" It has so!"—and then added, "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!”—“ I have known him these thirty years and value myself more for that man's love, than- [Sinking his head, and losing his voice in tears.-Spence.] A short time before his death, Mr. Pope said, “I am so certain of the soul's being immortal, that I seem to feel it within me as it were by intuition.” When Mr. Hooke asked him, whether he would not die as his father and mother had done; and whether he should not send for a priest ?—He said, “I do not suppose that is essential, but it will look right: and I heartily thank you for putting 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 only a part of virtue." [When Mr. Hooke whispered this to Lord Bolingbroke, at table, he said aloud; "Why, to be sure, that is the whole duty of man.”—From Papers.] Mr. Pope died the 30th of May (1744) in the evening; but they did not know the exact time: for his departure was so easy, that it was imperceptible even to the standers by.—MAY OUR END BE LIKE HIS ! Hooke told Warburton 'that the priest whom he had provided to do the last office to the dying man, came out from him, penetrated to the last degree with the state of mind in which he found his penitent, resigned and wrapt up in the love of God and man.' -The priest had scarce departed (says Warton) when Bolingbroke, coming over from Battersea, flew into a great fit of passion and indignation, on the occasion of his being called in.-Editor. END OF THE EIGHTH SECTION. SUPPLEMENTAL ANECDOTES, FROM MR. SPENCE'S PAPERS. IR Isaac Newton, though he scarce ever spoke ill of any man, could hardly avoid showing his contempt for your virtuoso collectors and antiquarians.-Speaking of Lord Pembroke once, he said, "let him have but a stone doll and he is satisfied. I can't imagine the utility of such studies: all their pursuits are below nature."-Fr. Chute. I have heard Sir Richard Steele say, that though he had a greater share in the Tatlers, than in the Spectators; he thought the news article, in the first of these, was what contributed much to their success. He confessed that he was much hurt, that Addison should direct his papers in the Spectator, to be printed off again in his works. It looked as if he was too much concerned for his own fame, to think of the injury he should do the pecuniary interests of an indigent friend: particularly as in the Spectator itself, they were sufficiently ascertained to be his by the mark CLIO. He confirmed, in some degree, the character Pope gives of Addison: from what Sir Richard dropt, in various |