 While parody sometimes served as a special kind of translation , some translations returned the compliment by providing a parodic version of the Elegy in their endeavour to accord to the current poetic style in the host language . An extreme example was provided by the <unk> French imitation by the Latin scholar John Roberts in 1875 . In place of the plain English of Gray ’ s “ And all that beauty , all that wealth e ’ er gave ” , he substituted the Parnassian Tous les dons de Plutus , tous les dons de <unk> ( All the gifts of Plutus and of <unk> ) and kept this up throughout the poem in a performance that its English reviewer noted as bearing only the thinnest relation to the original . 
