 | John Thomas Smith - City dwellers - 1849 - 472 pages
...Pope, in his " Epistle to the future Peer," used the well-known splendid example of the bathos, — " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the House of Lords." which excited much laughter in the town, and occasioned the following... | |
 | William Forsyth - Law - 1849 - 538 pages
...the couplet in which Pope complimented Murray, afterwards Lord Mansfield, when at the bar : " Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so bonoir'd at the House of Lords." The last line referred to a successful speech made by Murray at the... | |
 | William Forsyth - Law - 1849 - 528 pages
...the couplet in which Pope complimented Murray, afterwards Lord Mansfield, when at the bar : " Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd at the House of Lords.'' The last line referred to a successful speech made by Murray at the... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...It is true that one of the worst lines he ever wrote is about him, the second in this couplet — " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, at the House of Lords." An instance how much delicacy it requires to introduce with eflect familiar names and things ; sometimes... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 pages
...Venus,'' from Horace. A second compliment by Pope to this great man occasioned a famous parody : — " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, at the House of Lords." Pope (of Lord Mansfield). " Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks, And he has chambers in the... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...It is true that one of the worst lines he ever wrote is about him, the second in this couplet— " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, at the House of Lords." An instance how much delicacy it requires to introduce with effect familiar names and things; sometimes... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 430 pages
...It is true that one of the worst lines he ever wrote is about him, the second in this couplet — " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, at the House of Lords." An instance how much delicacy it requires to introduce with effect familiar names and things ; sometimes... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 pages
...that one of the worst lines he ever wrote is about him, the second in this couplet— " Graced as thon art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, at the House of Lords." An instance how much delicacy it requires to introduce with effect familiar names and things ; sometimes... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 446 pages
...Steward'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...the whole couplet was parodied as follows by Colley Gibber : " Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks, " And he has chambers in the King's Bench... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Peter Cunningham - London (England) - 1853 - 386 pages
...Venus," from Horace. A second compliment by Pope to this great man occasioned a famous parody : — " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, at the House of Lords." Pope (of Lord Mansjteld). " Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks, And he has chambers in the... | |
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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... 
