Explanation: It would have gone to your heart to have heard the moans the dumb creature made on the day of my master’s death. 

Answer: This remarkable and conspicuous sentence has been taken from the essay “Death of Sir Roger” by Joseph Addison. Here the butler gives a piteous description of the reaction of the ‘dump- creature’, the house dog at the death of Sir Roger.

The death of Sir Roger de Coverley had a great effect on the minds of the subjects, servants, parishioners, and the dump creature, the house dog. He always helped the poor man. He looked after them with great care. He loved the poor people. He was the real friend of the poor people in Worcestershire. He was very fond of the house- dog. At the undesired death of Sir Roger, the non-human creatures of nature seemed to have been shocked. The poor creature, the old house dog of Sir Roger seemed heartbroken. It was still looking for its master. It could not forget the love and great kindness that its master showed to it. The day of the death of Sir Roger was like the touches of melancholy day for the poor people that ever happened in Worcestershire.

To sum up, we may say that Addison’s ability to create touching manly pathos is vividly evident here. This is a beautiful quality of Addison’s style of writing. Here he narrates the great effect of a magnanimous death.