and was told by him that he must have mistaken the meaning of what
he heard: and Bolingbroke, when Pope's uneasiness incited him to
desire an explanation, declared that Hooke had misunderstood him.

Bolingbroke hated Warburton, who had drawn his pupil from him; and a
little before Pope's death they had a dispute, from which they
parted with mutual aversion. From this time Pope lived in the
closest intimacy with his commentator, and amply rewarded his
kindness and his zeal, for he introduced him to Mr. Murray, by whose
interest he became preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and to Mr. Allen, who
gave him his niece and his estate, and by consequence a bishopric.
When he died, he left him the property of his works, a legacy which
may be reasonably estimated at four thousand pounds.

Pope's fondness for the "Essay on Man" appeared by his desire of its
propagation. Dobson, who had gained reputation by his version of
Prior's "Solomon," was employed by him to translate it into Latin
verse, and was for that purpose some time at Twickenham; but he left
his work, whatever was the reason, unfinished; and, by Benson's
invitation, undertook the longer task of "Paradise Lost." Pope then
desired his friend to find a scholar who should turn his essay into
Latin prose; but no such performance has ever appeared.

Pope lived at this time AMONG THE GREAT, with that reception and
respect to which his works entitled him, and which he had not
impaired by any private misconduct or factious partiality. Though
Bolingbroke was his friend, Walpole was not his enemy, but treated
him with so much consideration as, at his request, to solicit and
obtain from the French Minister an abbey for Mr. Southcot, whom he
considered himself as obliged to reward, by his exertion of his