interest, for the benefit which he had received from his attendance
in a long illness. It was said, that when the Court was at
Richmond, Queen Caroline had declared her intention to visit him.
This may have been only a careless effusion, thought on no more.
The report of such notice, however, was soon in many mouths; and, if
I do not forget or misapprehend Savage's account, Pope, pretending
to decline what was not yet offered, left his house for a time, not,
I suppose, for any other reason than lest he should be thought to
stay at home in expectation of an honour which would not be
conferred. He was therefore angry at Swift, who represents him as
"refusing the visits of a queen," because he knew that what had
never been offered had never been refused.

Beside the general system of morality, supposed to be contained in
the "Essay on Man," it was his intention to write distinct poems
upon the different duties or conditions of life, one of which is the
"Epistle to Lord Bathurst" (1733) on the "Use of Riches," a piece on
which he declared great labour to have been bestowed. Into this
poem some hints are historically thrown, and some known characters
are introduced, with others of which it is difficult to say how far
they are real or fictitious: but the praise of Kryle, the Man of
Ross, deserves particular examination, who, after a long and pompous
enumeration of his public works and private charities, is said to
have diffused all those blessings from five hundred a year. Wonders
are willingly told and willingly heard. The truth is, that Kyrle
was a man of known integrity and active benevolence, by whose
solicitation the wealthy were persuaded to pay contributions to his
charitable schemes. This influence he obtained by an example of
liberality exerted to the utmost extent of his power, and was thus
enabled to give more than he had. This account Mr. Victor received