On the contrary, no man could be more warmly affectionate or more exquisitely sensitive to many noble emotions.

The misfortune was that his constitutional infirmities, acted upon by unfavourable conditions, developed his craving for applause and his fear of censure, till certain morbid tendencies in him assumed proportions which, compared to the same weaknesses in ordinary mankind, are as the growth of plants in a tropical forest to their stunted representatives in the North.
FOOTNOTES: [14] The evidence by which the statements in this chapter are supported is fully set forth in Mr.Elwin's edition of Pope's Works, Vol.

I., and in the notes to the Orrery Correspondence in the third volume of letters.
[15] This is proved by a note referring to "the present edition of the posthumous works of Mr.Wycherley," which, by an oversight, was allowed to remain in the Curll volume.
[16] These expressions come from two letters of Pope to Lord Orrery in March, 1737, and may not accurately reproduce his statements to Swift; but they probably represent approximately what he had said.
[17] It is said that the son objected to allow his wife to meet his father's mistress.
[18] See Elwin's edition of Pope's Correspondence, iii., 399, note.
[19] Pope's Works, vol.i.p.

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