The Virginian

POPE.—Mr. Pope was always complaining to his friends that he was poor. He had an income of nearly eight thousand pounds a year, but never could be prevailed upon to keep any account of his expenses. There was a picture of his painting at Caen wood, (Lord Mansfield's) the portrait of Betterton; and there is still a head of Vandyck by him at Home-Lacy. If the conversation did not take a lively turn, he used to fall asleep in company. His sister used to say that when a child he was exceedingly handsome, and she imagined that excess of study had distorted his body. At ten years of age, he wrote a satire on his schoolmaster. He was always anxious to have his defects of shape concealed in any bust or portrait that was taken of him. His eyes were remarkably vivid and bright, and an eminent painter, in allusion to their liveliness, observed that they