d originally--

"And oh! 'twas this that ended Cato's life."

A very weak line, which was altered at the suggestion of Pope
as it stands at present:--

"And robs the guilty world of Cato's life."--ED.

BOLINGBROKE AND MALLET'S POSTHUMOUS QUARREL WITH POPE.

Lord BOLINGBROKE affects violent resentment for Pope's pretended
breach of confidence in having printed his "Patriot King"--WARBURTON'S
apology for POPE'S disinterested intentions--BOLINGBROKE instigates
MALLET to libel POPE, after the poet's death--The real motive for
libelling POPE was BOLINGBROKE'S personal hatred of WARBURTON, for the
ascendancy the latter had obtained over the poet--Some account of
their rival conflicts--BOLINGBROKE had unsettled POPE'S religious
opinions, and WARBURTON had confirmed his faith--POPE, however,
refuses to abjure the Catholic religion--Anecdote of POPE'S anxiety
respecting a future state--MALLET'S intercourse with POPE: anecdote of
"The Apollo Vision," where MALLET mistook a sarcasm for a
compliment--MALLET'S character--Why LEONIDAS GLOVER declined writing
the Life of Marlborough--BOLINGBROKE'S character hit off--WARBURTON,
the concealed object of this posthumous quarrel with POPE.

On the death of POPE, 1500 copies of one of Lord BOLINGBROKE'S works,
"The Patriot King," were discovered to have been secretly printed by
Pope, but never published. The honest printer presented the whole to
his lordship, who burned the edition in his gardens at Battersea. The
MS. had been delivered to our poet by his lordship, with a request to
print a few copies for its better preservation, and for the use of a
few friends.

Bolingbroke affected to feel the most lively resentment for what he
chose to stigmatise as "a breach of confidence." "His thirst of
vengeance," said Johnson, "incited him to blast the memory of the man
over whom he had wept in his last struggles; and he employed Mallet,
another friend of Pope, to tell the tale to the public with all its
aggravations. Warburton, whose heart was warm with his legacy, and
tender by the recent separation," apologised for Pope. The irregular
conduct which Bolingbroke stigmatised as a breach of trust, was
attributed to a desire of perpetuating the work of his friend, who
might have capriciously destroyed it. Our poet could have no selfish
motive; he could not gratify his vanity by publishing the work as his
own, nor his avar