 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 Seiten
...Virtue's purest laws; For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest paraions is fears ; He left his bed, he trod the floor, He Van in haste the drawers explore, The lowest Oh, may to-night your favourable doom Another laurel add to grace his tomb : Whilst he, superior now... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 438 Seiten
...among the British poets, and which contain, as he himself has characterized those of Thomson, — <c Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, — One line which, dying, he could wish to blot." The younger Lyttelton wrote verses also ; but his, though not quite without merit, had to be banished... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1851 - 700 Seiten
...has been inscribed the high and glowing eulogy so merited by the tendency of all he wrote : — • " Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish LÜ blot." RIALTO, AT VENICE. This renowned bridge is mentioned by Shakspeare in his " Merchant of... | |
 | 1852 - 784 Seiten
...the purity of writings, throughout the whole of which we can, at this time, point out to the author Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Very especially do we admire that rare .artistic skill with which he so cunningly elaborates some of... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1853 - 738 Seiten
...been inscribed the high and glowing eulogy so merited by the tendency of all he wrote : — " Not ono immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. " RIALTO, BRIDGE OF THE, AT VENICE. A renowned bridge mentioned by Shakspeare in his " Merchant of... | |
 | James Thomson - 1854 - 426 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... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1854 - 546 Seiten
...S^tt» letón in bem angeführten prologo erteilt ^at. — His chaste Muse employ'd her heav'iitaught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not...thought, One line, which, dying, he could wish to blot. bt ©eine (е^фе SOÎufe Ьгаиф1е iljre ^tmmlifфe Se^er ju и{ф1в, als ju ©inflöffung ber... | |
 | James Thomson - 1856 - 344 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...— One line, which dying he could wish to blot." At the request of Lord Buchan, Robert Burns, the eweet poet of Scotland, prepared the following stanzas... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...wishings. Jacula Prudentum. GEOIIGF. LORD LYTTLETON. 1709-1773. Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None...thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. Epigram. None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1856 - 346 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...— One line, which dying he could wish to blot." At the request of Lord Buchan, Robert Burns, the eweet poet of Scotland, prepared the following stanzas... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 
