Pope seems to have taken up their cause with energy, and sent money to Mrs.Cope when, at a later period, she was dying abroad in great distress.

His zeal seems to have been sincere and generous, and it is possible enough that the elegy was a reflection of his feelings, though it suggested an imaginary state of facts.

If this be so, the reference to the lady in his posthumous note contained some relation to the truth, though if taken too literally it would be misleading.
The poems themselves are, beyond all doubt, impressive compositions.
They are vivid and admirably worked.

"Here," says Johnson of the _Eloisa to Abelard_, the most important of the two, "is particularly observable the _curiosa felicitas_, a fruitful soil and careful cultivation.

Here is no crudeness of sense, nor asperity of language." So far there can be no dispute.