 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...addresses. The 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, SO (More silent far) where... | |
 | Robert Richard Pearce - Admission to the bar - 1855 - 488 pages
...and other distinguished men of his day. Pope's lines, in his ' Imitations of Horace,' bie vi. — " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour 'd, at the House of Lords," were happily ridiculed by a writer named Brown, who parodied them:... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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 honoured, at the house of lords : Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie; Where Murray... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 434 pages
...Steward's Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 386. cd. 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 liatlios, and the whole couplet was parodied as follows by Colley Gibber : " Persuasion tips his tongue... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1859 - 476 pages
...spectator. It is from a couplet of Pope's we learn how he first became known in the profession — " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour' d, in the House of Lords." A piece of bathos thus parodied by Gibber — " Persuasion tips... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 494 pages
...spectator. It is from a couplet of Pope's we learn how he first became known in the profession — " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, in the House of Lords." A piece of bathos thus parodied by Cibber — " Persuasion tips his... | |
 | Archer Polson - Law - 1858 - 212 pages
...+ It is for this reason that his friend Pope apostrophised him in the well-known lines — " Blest as thou art, with all the power of words, So known, so honoured in the House of Lords." This charming specimen of "the art of sinking," was admirably parodied by Colley... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...thine. And what is fame ? the meanest have their day ; The greatest can but blaze and pass away. Grac'd 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 - 1860 - 542 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... 
