 | John Dawson Ross - 1889 - 232 pages
...adorn the writings of our present author. DONALD RAMSAY. For his chaste muse, employed by heaven-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire; Not...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 - 314 pages
...though unknown, Responds unto his own.— Longfellow. For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire ; Not...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 and... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 pages
...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 to inspire, Not...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...charm'd each ear and soften'd every heart. LORD LYTTELTON. Fur his chaste Muse employ'd her heaventaught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire ; N'ot...thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. LORD LYTTELTON: Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. What neede my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...chaste Muse employed her heaventaught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immortal, who ne'er loved them ; and there be many that they have loved, the g. LORD LYTTLETON — Prologue to Tliomson's Coriolanus. All that is best in the great poets of all... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 554 pages
...applause, You heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws : For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire ; Not...dying, he could wish to blot. Oh, may to-night your favorable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb ; Whilst he, superior now to praise or blame, Hears... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1898 - 488 pages
...The actor is said to have broken down in repeating Lyttelton's prologue when he came to the lines : Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying, he could wish to blot. The proceeds were sent to Thomson's sisters. ' Coriolanus ' having been produced and printed (1749,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1900 - 546 pages
...you then, will you hear or know ? ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. PROLOGUE TO THOMSON'S "CORIOLANUS." Nor one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. LORD LTTTELTON. THE BRIDE OF THE DEAD. SHE has lighted her lamp and crowned it with flowers — The... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1902 - 808 pages
...heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws; For his chaste Mnse employ'd her heaventaught lyre None bnt the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral,...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. 
