Note 436 — PART THE SECOND. (continued 10)
Reading edition
Mr. Henry Cowper, who was reading-clerk in the House of Lords, was remarkable for the clearness and melody of his voice. This qualification is happily alluded to by the poet, in the following lines:—
"Thou art not voice alone, but hast besides Both heart and head, and could'st with music sweet Of Attic phrase and senatorial tone, Like thy renown'd forefathers,* far and wide Thy fame diffuse, praised, not for utterance meet Of others' speech, but magic of thy own."
*Lord-Chancellor Cowper, and Spencer Cowper, Chief-Justice of Chester.