 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...of him, ' 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.' Lyttelton himself died August 22, 1773, aged sixty-four. His History is now little read. It took him,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire ; Not oiie immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. O may to-nigl.t your favourable doom Another latuvl add to t?r ce his tomb : Whilst he. superior now... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...chaste Muse employed her heaventaught lyre None but the noblest passions tn inspire, Not one immortal, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. n. BULWEB-LYTTON - Prologue to Thomson's Corio/ajius. Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 562 pages
...to you then, will you hear or know ? ALGERNON CHAULES SWINBURNE. PROLOGUE TO THOMSON'S "CORIOLANUS." NOT one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. LORD LYTTELTON. THE BRIDE OF THE DEAD. SHE has lighted her lamp and crowned it with flowers — The... | |
 | Edward Ellis Morris - Great Britain - 1886 - 286 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. Young's 'Night Thoughts,' or, according to its full title, 'The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts on Life,... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1888 - 500 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 I5th of May 1751 ; the... | |
 | 1888 - 68 pages
...that, — " 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." Walter Alden DeCamp. BURIAL OF THE ANCIENT. This service to his memory In token of the debt we owe... | |
 | 1888 - 832 pages
...important work: — Xo line which dying he could wish to blot. It stands thus in the original: Xot one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying he could wish to blot. LOKD LYTTLETON. Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. To err is human, to forgive divine. POPE. Essay on... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - American poetry - 1889 - 236 pages
...RAMSAY. For his chaste muse, employed by 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. MR. DONALD RAMSAY is a notable example of the many Scotsmen who have risen from the ranks through their... | |
 | John Kennedy - English language - 1890 - 314 pages
...Longfellow. 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.— Lord Littleton. Fal. Either I mistake your shape and making Quite, Or else you are that shrewd and... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 
