Grac'd As Thou Art With All The Power Of Words, So Known, So Honour'd At The House Of Lords.

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Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words,
So known, so honour'd at the House of Lords.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle vi, Book i, To, Mr. Murray

Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot The last and greatest art,--the art to blot.
Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
He 's armed without that 's innocent within.
When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Who says in verse what others say in prose.

Grac'd As Thou Art With All The Power Of Words, So Known, So Honour'd At The House Of Lords.

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