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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Sämmtliche Schriften: Erster [-Zwei und ...

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...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

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...
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Sämmtliche schriften: Schriften. 1754. Theatralische bibliothek, 1754-58 ...

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...
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Dictionary of dates, and universal reference

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...
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A Poem to the Memory of William Congreve, Volume 9, Issue 2

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,...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

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...
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Conduct of Life: a Series of Essays ...

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)...
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First Impressions of England and Its People

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...
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First Impressions of England and Its People

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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

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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