 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 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... | |
 | John McGovern - 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... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John), John Doran - 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Edward Ellis Morris - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 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... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 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... | |
 | John Kennedy - 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... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 
