“Here lies, who died, as most folks die, in hope,
The mouldering, more ignoble part of Pope;
The hard, whose sprightly genius dared to wage
Poetic war with an immoral age;
Made every vice and private folly known
In friend and foe—­a stranger to his own
Set Virtue in its loveliest form to view,
And still professed to be the sketch he drew. 
As humour or as interest served, his verse
Could praise or flatter, libel or asperse: 
Unharming innocence with guilt could load,
Or lift the rebel patriot to a god: 
Give the censorious critic standing laws-
The first to violate them with applause;
The just translator and the solid wit,
Like whom the passions few so truly hit: 
The scourge of dunces whom his malice made-
The impious plague of the defenceless dead: 
To real knaves and real fools a sore-
Beloved by many but abhorr’d by more,
If here his merits are not full exprest,
His never-dying strains shall tell the rest.”

Sure the greater part was his true character; Here is another epitaph by Rolli;(952) which for the profound fall in some of the verses’, especially in the last, will divert you.

“Spento `e il Pope:  de’ poeti Britanni
Uno de’ lumi che sorge in mille anni: 
Pur si vuol che la macchia d’Ingrato
N’abbia reso il fulgor men sereno: 
Stato fora e pi`u giusto e pi`u grato. 
Men lodando e biasmando ancor meno.”

(946) French ambassador at the court of St. Petersburg, and for some time a favourite of the Empress Elizabeth.  The report of his disgrace was correct.  He died in 1758.-E.

(947) A Florentine, but employed as minister by France.

(948) The officers of justice, who are reckoned so infamous in Italy, that the foreign ministers have always pretended to hinder them from passing through the streets where they reside.

(949) Cardinal Alexander Albani, nephew of Clement XI. was minister of the Queen of Hungary at Rome.

(950) Giovanni Battista Uguecioni, a Florentine nobleman, and great friend of the Pomfrets.

(951) George Knapton, a portrait painter.  Walpole says, he was well versed in the theory of painting, and had a thorough knowledge of the hands of the good masters.  He died at Kensington, in 1778, at the age of eighty.-E.

(952) Paolo Antonio Rolli, composer of the operas, translated and published several things. [Thus hitched into the Dunciad-

“Rolli the feather to his ear conveys
Then his nice taste directs our operas.”

Warburton says, “He taught Italian to some fine gentlemen, who affected to direct the operas.”

379 Letter 143 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.  Arlington Street, July 20, 1744.

My dearest Harry, I feel that I have so much to say to you, that I foresee there will be but little method in my letter; but if, upon the whole, you see My meaning, and the depth of my friendship for you, I am content.