To be recognized by the most eminent man of letters of the day was to receive a kind of certificate of excellence, valuable to a man who had not the regular university hall-mark.

More definite results followed.

Pope introduced Warburton to Allen, and to Murray, afterwards Lord Mansfield.

Through Murray he was appointed preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and from Allen he derived greater benefits--the hand of his niece and heiress, and an introduction to Pitt, which gained for him the bishopric of Gloucester.
Pope's allegiance to Bolingbroke was not weakened by this new alliance.
He sought to bring the two together, when Bolingbroke again visited England in 1743.

The only result was an angry explosion, as, indeed, might have been foreseen; for Bolingbroke was not likely to be well-disposed to the clever parson whose dexterous sleight-of-hand had transferred Pope to the orthodox camp; nor was it natural that Warburton, the most combative and insulting of controversialists, should talk on friendly terms to one of his natural antagonists--an antagonist, moreover, who was not likely to have bishoprics in his gift.