Summing-up

"There and then, have I often heard,[…], above all, (nam supereminet omnes) the calm, dignified, and elegant summings-up, of Lord Mansfield: delivered in “silver tones,” that / “Rose like a steam of rich distill’d perfumes, / And stole upon the air.” / which were heard with a silence “still as death;” and never failed to fascinate, though they might not always convince."