 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 pages
...was written after that author's death, and says of him, ' 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.' Lyttelton himself died August 22, 1773, aged sixty-four. His History is now little read. It took him,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot. POPE. — To Augustus, Epistle I. Line 280. Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. LTTTLE-N. — Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanng, Line 23. No song Of mine, from youth to age, has left... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...good hater. Ibid. Piozzi 39. LORD LYTTELTON. 1709-1773. 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 Thon^on's Coriolanus. None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair, But love can hope... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1865 - 434 pages
...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 to inspire ; Not...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 May, 1751 ; the... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1865 - 438 pages
...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 to inspire ; Not...thought, One line, which, dying, he could wish to blot" The last night Qnin played as an engaged actor, was at Covent Garden, on the 15th of May, 1761 ; the... | |
 | 1865 - 792 pages
...life of Thomson, the accomplished author of the Seasons, who, as Lyttleton pithily observed, left " Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot." The erudition displayed in his exquisite poems would justify his being ranked amongst the most industrious... | |
 | George Charles L. Tottenham - 1868 - 526 pages
...loathsome garments. It'll never be said of him that — ' 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.' ' He's very young,' said Drummond, handing Townsend a box of cigarets ; ' he may improve. It's to be... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...should himself be free.' LORD LYTTELTON. 1709-1773. 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 Thomsoris Coriolanns. None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair, But love can hope... | |
 | 1870 - 784 pages
...poet long departed, the reader will find in this full volume of thoughtful verse — Not one 'mmoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. This is no small praise in the present day of the abased muses, and will, we should hope, carry a book,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1873 - 508 pages
...which was acted after the poet's death, in which he says: " 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." The praise accorded him in this much-quoted line is justly his due : it is greater praise that he was... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. 
