 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 Seiten
...laws ; For his chafte Mufe cmploy'd her heaven-taugh lyre None but the nobleft paffions to infpire, Not one immoral, one corrupted /thought, One line, which dying he could with to blot. Oh ! may to night your favourable doom Another laurel add, tJ grace his tomb : Whilft... | |
 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1801 - 186 Seiten
...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. Oh ! may to-night your favourable doom Another laurel add, to grace his tomb: Whilst he, superior now... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 336 Seiten
...applause You heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws ; For his chaste Muse employ'd her heav'n-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not...thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. Oh, may to-night your favourable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb: Whilst he, superior now... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 348 Seiten
...applause You heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws; For his chaste Muse employ'd her heav'n-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not...thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. Oh, may to-night your favourable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb: Whilst he, superior now... | |
 | 1803 - 558 Seiten
...(Thomlbn.) " His chafte mufc empley'd her heav'n-taught lyre None but the nobleít paíiions to infpire, Not one immoral, one corrupted, thought^ One line, which dying he could wifii to blot." Proloue lo T/iomion's Cu in I am, Sir, your's, Sic. August \, 1803. CLERICUS ANGLJCARPI.... | |
 | Cuthbert Shaw, Thomas Park - 1807 - 230 Seiten
...house, with just applause, Yon 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. Oh ! may to-night yeur favourable doom Another laurel add, to grace his tomb : Whilst he, superior... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 Seiten
...(then known to him only through his productions) from an arrest, by a present of a* hundred pounds. Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying he could wish to blot. Oh ! may to-night your favourable doom Another- laurel add, to grace his tomb! Whilst he, superior... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821 - 414 Seiten
...was beautifully and truly said by Lyttelton, in his prologue to Coriolanus, His chaste muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions...immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he would wish to blot The only exception which I ever knew to be taken to Thomson, on the ground of religious... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 286 Seiten
...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. Oh! may to-night your favourable doom Another laurel add, to grace his tomb: Whilst he, superior now... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 414 Seiten
...was beautifully and truly said by Lyttelton, in his prologue to Coriolanus, His chaste muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions...immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he would wish to blot. The only exception which 1 ever knew to be taken to Thomson, on the ground of religious... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 
