 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 Seiten
...Oft in this crowded house, with just applause, You heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws ; For joys have I known, Since wedlock's soft bondage made...tasteless, and roving a pain. Through walks grown w O may to-night your favourable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb : Whilst he, superior now... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 Seiten
...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. О may to-night your favourable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb : Whilst he, superior now... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 Seiten
...: Life of Joknson, 1741. LORD LYTTLETON. 1709-1773. For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven -tanght lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not...thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Prologue to Thomson't Coriolanut. Women, like princes, find few real friends. Advice to a Lady. What... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 544 Seiten
...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. Oh, may to-night your favorable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb ; Whilst he, superior now... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 Seiten
...: Life ofJohnsvn, 1741. LORD LYTTLETOX. 1709-1773. For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaveii -taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not...thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Prologue to Thoiiuon'i Coriolanut Women, like princes, find few real friends. Advice to a Ladf What... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 Seiten
...summed up in a verse by his friend, Lord Lyttleton : 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. Dr. Johnson, whose life of the poet is not very friendly, his dislike being probably founded on the... | |
 | Ezra Morgan Wood - 1903 - 234 Seiten
...write Finis, it will be an eternal benediction to the soul to know that in all the volume there is "Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying, he could wish to blot." But what of the Future? Is life a disappointment to most people? Many think so. To some it is a sad... | |
 | David Williams Higgins - 1904 - 446 Seiten
...his coming of age will shortly be celebrated with becoming honors. ENGLAND'S GREATEST NOVELIST. " For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None...thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot." — Lyttleton. IT was at the close of a beautiful day in the month of April, 1868, that I strolled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 Seiten
...first edition this Life ends here. The ' Prologue to Sophonisba, by Pope and Mallet ' followed. 3 ' Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying he could wish to blot.' Prologue to Coriolanus, Works, iv. 182. ' M. Despre"aux [Boileau] s'applaudissait fort \ 1'ige de soixante... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 
