 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...1709-1773. 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. Women, like princes, find few real friends. Adviee to a Lady. What... | |
 | American literature - 1874 - 414 pages
...attached. London, 1667. $1.50 COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SONGS. With an Appendix. 8vo, calf. London, 1796. $3.25 "Not one immoral, one corrupted thought ; One line, which dying, he could wish to blot." COLLIEB, JOHN PAYNE. Book of Hoxburghe Ballads. 4», half calf. Scarce. Lon~ don, 1847. $8.00 CROKEB,... | |
 | American literature - 1874 - 992 pages
...attached. London, 1667. $1.50 COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SONGS. With an Appendix. 8vo, calf. London, 1796. $3.25 "Not one immoral, one corrupted thought ; One line, which dying, he could wish 10 blot" COLLIEB, JOHN PAYNE. Book of Boxburghe Ballads. 4to, half calf. Scarce. London, 1847. $800... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...1709-1773. 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. Women, like princes, find few real friends. Advice to a Lady. is... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...LYTTELTON. 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. LORD LYTTELTON : Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. What neede my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...Muse. — For his chaste MUSE employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passious to iuspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought. One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Lord LYTTELTON, ProUigne to Thomton's CorManus. Music. — I am never merry when I hear sweet MUSIC.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...LYTTELTON. 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. LORD LYTTELTON : Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. What neede my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles Jerdan - 1878 - 286 pages
...what is called "the fleshly school" of poetry. In his own writings he " uttered nothing base "— " Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot." LITERARY REMAINS. As already remarked, Mr. JERDAN'S prose writings took the ephemeral form of popular... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...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. IN 1736, William Shenstone wrote a poem entitled "The Schoolmistress," in which a stanza appeared that... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John), John Doran - Actors - 1880 - 456 pages
...of a poet, whose " Muse employ'd 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." The last night Quin played as an engaged actor, was at Covent Garden, on the 15th of May, 1751 ; the... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 
