 | Law - 1873 - 462 pages
...How sweet an Ovid, Murray, was our boast," and in honor of that " sweet Ovid," penned the lines : " Graced, as thou art, with all the power of words— So known, sO honored in the houae of lords." ' Lord Eldon was an Oxford essayist in his young days, and in his old... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1870 - 1344 pages
...great man were deposited in Westminster Abbey, — thus fulfilling the prediction of his friend Pope : "Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd in the House of Lords, — Auspicious scene ! another yet is nigh, More silent far, where... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1871 - 510 pages
...with a hundred arts refined." Again, in another imitation of Horace, Pope thus eulogizes him:— " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, at the House of Lords :" f a couplet which was thus wickedly parodied at the time:— " Persuasion tips his tongne whene'er... | |
 | L. J. Bigelow - Humor - 1871 - 550 pages
...that, Sir Fletcher." Mansfield was very intimate with the wits of his time, one of whom wrote of him, " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honored in the House of Lords." Another, of a more churlish nature but not less wit, Sam Johnson, at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...county.' He afterwards married Lady Elizabeth Finch, daughter of the Earl of Winchilsea. 1. 49. Grac'd as thou art, with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the House of Lords. It seems incredible that Pope could have allowed this piece of bathos... | |
 | John Timbs - Law - 1873 - 170 pages
...the House of Lords first brought him into notice, to which Pope alludes in the following lines — Graced as thou art, with all the power of words, So...known, so honoured at the House of Lords. The second of these lines is a great falling-off from the first ; they were thus parodied by Colley Gibber —... | |
 | Law - 1873 - 464 pages
...How sweet an Ovid, Murray, was our boast," and in honor of that " sweet Ovid," penned the lines : " Graced, as thou art, with all the power of words — So known, so honored in the house of lords." ' Lord Eldon was an Oxford essayist in his young days, and in his old... | |
 | Howard Paul, John Timbs, Percy Fitzgerald - Anecdotes - 1873 - 456 pages
...the House of Lords first brought him into notice, to which 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 is a great falling-off from the first ; they... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1874 - 464 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 honoor'd in the House of Lords — * Auspicious scene ! another yet Is nigh, More silent far, where... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. GOLDSMITH : Retaliation. Graced as thou art with all the power of words; So known, so honour'd af the House of Lords. POPE : on Mansfield. Imbrown'd with native bronze, lo ! Henley stands,... | |
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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... 
