 | Edward Ellis Morris - 1886 - 286 pages
...Oft in this crowded house, with just applause, You heard him teach fair virtue's purest laws ; For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None...thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Young's 'Night Thoughts,' or, according to its full title, 'The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts on Life,... | |
 | 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 — The... | |
 | 1888 - 68 pages
...mighty weapons of his genius under the banner of Divine approval, as to feel at life's close that, — " his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None...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 debt we owe... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1888 - 500 pages
...;" and Quin's eyes glistened, as he went through the noble eulogy of a poet, whose " Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions...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 May 1751 ; the... | |
 | 1888 - 832 pages
...important work: — Xo line which dying he could wish to blot. It stands thus in the original: Xot one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying he could wish to blot. LOKD LYTTLETON. Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. To err is human, to forgive divine. POPE. Essay on... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 1889 - 236 pages
...beauties which adorn the writings of our present author. DONALD RAMSAY. For his chaste muse, employed by heaven-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions...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 through their... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1890 - 304 pages
...one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, "Responds unto his own.— Longfellow. For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None...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 that shrewd... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1890 - 464 pages
...Syttletonm bem angeführten prologo ertljeiít {)ot. — His chaste Muse em ploy 'd her heav'ntaught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought. 35 One line, which, dying, he could wish to blot. Ь. i. (Seine feufcfye 3)iufe bradjte iíjre {пттЩфе... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 pages
...house, with just applause You heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws ; For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions...thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. GEORGE, LORD LYTTELTON : Prologtie to Thomson's ' Coriolanus' Tho' Thomson, sweet descriptive bard... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1894 - 544 pages
...to you then, will you hear or know ' ALGERNON CHAKLKS SWISBUKNE. PROLOGUE TO THOMSON'S "CORIOLANUS." NOT one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. THE BRIDE OF THE DEAD. SHE has lighted her lamp and crowned it with flowers — The sweetest that breathed... | |
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