 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...time pays him a most elegant compliment in comparing lym to Cicero and the great lord Clarendon: • " Graced as thou art with all the power of words : So known, so honour'd at the house of lords, Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, More awful far, where kings... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...darken thine. And what is fame ? the meanest have their day : The greatest can hut hlaze, and pass away. Graced as thou art, with all the power of words, So known, so honoor'd,al the house of lords : Conspicuous scene ! anuther yet is nigh 'More silent far,) where kings... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...darken thine. And what is fame? the meanest have their day; The greatest can but blaze, and pass away. Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the house of lords; Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings... | |
 | Charles Butler - Autobiography - 1822 - 706 pages
...employment and a gain of 3,ooo/. a year. To this speech Mr. Pope alludes in the following lines : " Graced as thou art, with all the power of words, " So known, so honour'd at the house of lords." The second of these lines has been considered to be a great falling... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...darken thine. And what is fame ! the meanest have their day; The greatest can but blaze, and pass away. Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the house of lords; Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings... | |
 | 1823 - 602 pages
...of employment and a gain of 3000/. a year.' To this, Mr. Pope alludes in the following lines : ' " Graced as thou art, with all the power of words, So known, so honour' d at the house of Lords." ' ' The second of these lines has been considered as a great falling... | |
 | Charles Butler - Authors, English - 1824 - 368 pages
...he never knew the difference between a total want of employment and a gain of 3,OOOZ. a year. 105 " Graced as thou art, with all the power of words, So...known, so honoured, at the house of lords." The second of these lines has been considered a great falling off from the first. They were thus parodied by Colly... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 372 pages
...gain of 3,OOOZ. a year. To this speech Mr. Pope alludes in the following lines : •• Graced as Ihou art, with all the power of words; So known, so honoured, at the house of lords." The second of these lines has been considered a falling off from the first. They were thus parodied by Colly Gibber... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...thine: 45 And what is fame ? the meanest have their day, The greatest can but blaze, and pass away. Graced as thou art, 'with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the House of Lords : Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, 50 (More silent far,) where... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...thine: 45 And what is fame ? the meanest have their day, The greatest can but blaze, and pass away. Graced as thou art, 'with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the House of Lords : Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, 50 (More silent far,) where... | |
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Graced as thou art, with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the house of lords : Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh (More silent far,) where kings and poets lie : Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than... 
