 | William Forsyth - Law - 1849 - 538 pages
...than 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 honoür'd at the House of Lords." The last line referred to a successful speech made by Murray at the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...ennobles, or degrades each line ; It brighten'd CRAGGS'S k , and may darken thine : And what is fame 1 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... | |
 | Law - 1849 - 584 pages
...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 this time at No. 5, King's Bench' walk, Temple,... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...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... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 450 pages
...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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1853 - 454 pages
...rich dulness of some son of earth ? Yet time ennobles or degrades each line; It brighten'd Craggs's, and may darken thine. And what is fame ? the meanest...their day; The greatest can but blaze and pass away. Graced aa thou art with all the power of words, So known, ao honor'd in the House of Lords—" Auspicious... | |
 | Aims - 1853 - 78 pages
...the one object meeting the beholder's eye, in every character that is grounded on the love of fame. And what is fame ? the meanest have their day : The greatest can but blaze, and pass away. 24 DISSIMILARITIES OF LIFE. force of circumstances: they are original elements : and as such bestowed... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Peter Cunningham - London (England) - 1853 - 386 pages
...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." " Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks, And he has chambers... | |
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and may darken 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... 
