 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...industry and chaAnd 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 honor'd at the house of lords ; Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, 50 More silent far, where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...darken thine : And what is fame i the meanest have their day, The greatest can but blaze, and pass away. ng. Music the fiercest grief cnn charm, And fate's severest r honour'd, at the house of lords : Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...effected a coalition of parties, which led to the administration of Chatham. Of him Pope writes— " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured in the House of Lords; Conspicuous scene ; another yet is nigh, More silent far where kings and poets... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pages
...Seward's Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 386. ed. 1804. Of that character Mr. Charles Butler in his Reminiscences (vol. ip 125.) has declared himself the author, f...second line was much criticised as an instance of the bat/ws, and the whole couplet was parodied as follows by Colley Cibbcr : " Persuasion tips his tongue... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - Literary landmarks - 1846 - 484 pages
...in his " Epistle to the future Peer," used the well-known and splendid example of the bathos, — " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so houour'd, at the House of Lords.'' which excited much laughter in the town, and occasioned the following... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 576 pages
...addressed to Murray, and contains, among other passages relating to him, the following lines : — " Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd in the House of Lords.» * A specimen of bathos hardly surpassed by Colley Gibber's well known... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 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... | |
 | Law - 1849 - 584 pages
...of Murray, " In 1837 Pope thus referred to his practice at the bar of the House of Peers : — " ' Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured in the House of Lords.' " " His chambers were at thig time at No. 5, King's Benchwalk, Temple, to which... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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... | |
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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... 
