 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...thine. And what is fame 1 The meanest have their day ; The greatest can but blaze and pass away. Grand as thou art, with all the power of words, So known, so honoured in the House of Lords t — Conspicuous scene ! — another yet is nigh, More silent far, where kings... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Poets, Scottish - 1887 - 416 pages
...exception unjustly, was the couplet in praise of his particular friend Lord Mansfield, the celebrated Judge Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, in the House of Lords. " Nothing," he said, " could be more ' bathetic.' " "Bathetic ! "interposed... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Dedications - 1887 - 276 pages
...And what is fame? — the meanest have their day 1 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 Bain - English language - 1888 - 388 pages
...suggest the commonplace, the mean, the little, the grovelling. Hence the weakness of the following:— Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, at the House of Lords.* The same writer says of the divine power that itWarms in the sun. refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Literary landmarks - 1890 - 240 pages
...at No. 5. One remembers the fact through Gibber's admirable parody on Pope's lavish compliment : " Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, at the House of Lords." The bathos in the latter line is happily ridiculed : " Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks, And... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 646 pages
...To 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 Mansf1eld). Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks, And he has chambers in the... | |
 | William John Loftie - Inns of Chancery - 1893 - 158 pages
...it was made, and when Cibber parodied Pope's couplet on Murray, afterwards Earl of Mansfield, — ' Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured at the House of Lords,' by writing — ' Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks, And he has chambers in the King's Bench... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...? POPE. Fat fees from the defended Umbrian draws, And only gains the wealthy client's cause. POPE. 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... | |
 | American literature - 1845 - 598 pages
...spectator. It is from a couplet of Pope's we learn how he first became known in the profession — i Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honor'd, in the House of Lords.' A piece of bathos thus parodied by Cibber— 'Persuasion tips his... | |
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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... 
