| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1826 - 608 pages
...His chaste Mus« eniploy'd her heav'utaught lyre None but tlie noblest passions to inspire, '48 Kot one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which, dying, he could wish to blot. . i. ©tine teufdje 8)1 ufe brauste il; te ,щщП1"фе Scier }it nirf»té, nie ¡n ©inflo; pang... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...laws ; For his chaste Muse emploj'd her heaven-taught lyre None hut the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish lo blot. Oh, may to-night your favourable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb : Whilst he, superior... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1838 - 514 pages
...erteilt ^at. — His chafte Mufe einploy'd her heav'ntaught lyre None but the noblen pallions to infpire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which, dying, he could wish to blot, oi ©eine ¥ eufcbe XTTufe brauchte i^re biiwnüfcbe Ä.eyer 5u nicbte, «Is 5tt »tttifloii'uiu? der... | |
| Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 pages
...poet has been inscribed the high and glowing eulogy so merited by the tendency of all Le wrote : — " Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot." RIALTO, AT VENICE. This renowned bridge is mentioned by Shakspeare in his " Merchant of Venice." It... | |
| James Thomson - 1843 - 42 pages
...to be Let. XVI illustrative of the personal character of a great poet, whose greatest praise is : " Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot." not the exaggerated praise he has bestowed upon Pope, " For though not sweeter his own Homer sings,... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...laws ; For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire ; Chambers 0 may to-night your favourable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb : Whilst he, superior now... | |
| George Long - 1845 - 264 pages
...found of a decidedly immoral tendency. It was justly said of Thomson, that his writings contained " Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying he could wish to blot." The same praise may be justly given to Mr. Wordsworth ; and perhaps a few (it is to be feared but few)... | |
| Hugh Miller - England - 1847 - 454 pages
...gave him a place among the British poets, and which contain, as he himself has characterized those of Thomson,— "Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,— One line which, dying, he could wish to blot." The younger Lyttleton wrote verses also ; but his, though not quite without merit, had to be banished... | |
| Hugh Miller - England - 1851 - 438 pages
...among the British poets, and which contain, as he himself has characterized those of Thomson, — <c Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, — One line which, dying, he could wish to blot." The younger Lyttelton wrote verses also ; but his, though not quite without merit, had to be banished... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 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. 0 may to-night your favourable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb : Whilst he, superior now... | |
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