 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...1709-1773. For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven -tanght 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't Coriolanut. Women, like princes, find few real friends. Advice to a Lady. What... | |
 | Ezra Morgan Wood - Religion and science - 1903 - 234 pages
...write Finis, it will be an eternal benediction to the soul to know that in all the volume there is "Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying, he could wish to blot." But what of the Future? Is life a disappointment to most people? Many think so. To some it is a sad... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 544 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. Oh, may to-night your favorable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb ; Whilst he, superior now... | |
 | John N. Crawford - Authors, English - 1903 - 442 pages
...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 founded on the... | |
 | David Williams Higgins - British Columbia - 1904 - 446 pages
...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 I strolled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 582 pages
...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 \ 1'ige de soixante... | |
 | Education - 1906 - 636 pages
...always high, 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 in the supreme... | |
 | Leon M. Linden - American poetry - 1908 - 170 pages
...Muse employed her heaventaught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, not one corrupted thought, One line, which dying, he could wish to blot." — Lyttelton. And where is the godless poet who has not at times given vent to a concord of sweetest... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...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 with a strong... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 
