 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 sivua
...Lyttleton : For his chaste muse employed her heaven taught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire. Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which, dying, he could wish to blot. Dr. Johnson, whose life of the poet is not very friendly, his dislike being probably... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 544 sivua
...laws : For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire ; Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Oh, may to-night your favorable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb ; Whilst he,... | |
 | David Williams Higgins - 1904 - 446 sivua
...NOVELIST. " For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot." — Lyttleton. IT was at the close of a beautiful day in the month of April, 1868, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 sivua
...first edition this Life ends here. The ' Prologue to Sophonisba, by Pope and Mallet ' followed. 3 ' Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying he could wish to blot.' Prologue to Coriolanus, Works, iv. 182. ' M. Despre"aux [Boileau] s'applaudissait fort... | |
 | 1906 - 636 sivua
...his thought pure, and his language chaste. It may be said of Dickens, as Lyttleton sang of Thomson : Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. Dean Farrar thinks Dickens was a truly religious man. At all events, he had a loyal belief... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 sivua
...laws; For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaventaught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. — LYTTELTON, GEORGE LORD, 1749, Prologue to Thomson's "Coriolanus." Thomson was blessed... | |
 | 1922 - 1396 sivua
...the prologue, which was written by Lyttelton, and contains the oft-quoted lines ( Works, iii. 199): Not one immoral, one corrupted thought. One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. An edition of the ' Works of James Thomson' was published under Lyttelton's superintendence... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 sivua
...SPENSER) ID For his chaste Muse employed her heaventaught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, d ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd wish to blot. LORD LYTTLETON — Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. 17 (See also SWIFT) Non scribit,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 sivua
...BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. LORD LYTTELTON. Wisdom married to immortal verse. The... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 
