...sweet an Ovid, Murray, was our boast," and in honour of that " Sweet Ovid" penned the lines, " Graced as thou art, with all the power of words, So known, so honoured in the House of Lords," — verses deliciously ridiculed by the parodist who wrote, " Persuasion...

...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 kings and poets lie; Where Murray,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 to escape...

...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 were...

...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...

...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...

...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 bar of...