 | 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
...applause Yon heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws; For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaventaught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not...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... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...LYTTLETON. — MOORE. LORD LYTTLETON. 1709-1773. For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre Xone but the noblest passions to inspire, .Not one immoral,...thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Proluyut to Thunaon'i Coriolaniu Women, like princes, find few real friends. Mvice lo a Lady. What... | |
 | Great Britain - 1922 - 1396 pages
...the prologue, which was written by Lyttelton, and contains the oft-quoted lines ( Works, iii. 199): Not one immoral, one corrupted thought. One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. An edition of the ' Works of James Thomson' was published under Lyttelton's superintendence in 1760... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Princes. Referring to CHAUCER. (See also SPENSER) ID For his chaste Muse employed her heaventaught Vision of Judgment. St. 10. a What's hallow'd ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd LORD LYTTLETON — Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. 17 (See also SWIFT) Non scribit, cujus carmina... | |
 | Maggs Bros - 1922 - 272 pages
...said to have broken down in the prologue by Lyttelton when he came to the lines " Not one unmoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which, dying, he could wish to blot." 2123 Edward and Eleonora. A Tragedy. Acted at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden. FIRST EDITION. 8vo,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...soul-moving poesy. Essay tn, Poetry. DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not...thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. LORD LYTTELTON. Wisdom married to immortal verse. The Excursion,... | |
 | Fred Wellington Ruckstull - Art - 1925 - 738 pages
...chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immortal one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. BULWER-LYTTON. He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1869 - 702 pages
...whose publications it can be written (as Lyttelton did of the poet Thomson) that he has put forth '• Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying he could wish to blot" To one excellent firm of this kind, (Messrs. Chas. Scribner & Co.,) our library ia indebted for a donation... | |
 | 1850 - 450 pages
...in u everybody's moutk." No line which dying he could wish to blot. It stands thus in the original : Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying he could wish to blot. LORD LYTTLETON. Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. To err is human, to forgive divine. PoPE. Essay on... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. 
