| Henry Coppée - 1894 - 544 Seiten
...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... | |
| Léon Morel - 1895 - 696 Seiten
...well you know : For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre N'one but thé noblest passions lo inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wisli to blot. Les vers étaient beaux, parce que la douleur qu'ils exprimaient était sincère. L'acteur... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 Seiten
...moving art, That 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...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 Seiten
...so weak to venture his poor verse In such a place as this. p. KE\T8—Endymion. Bk. III. L. 9C5. For e doth not mean, "away." Flatter and praise, commend, extol their immortal, one corrupted thought. One line, which dying he could wish to blot. g. LORD LYTTLETON —... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 554 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... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1898 - 454 Seiten
...Upon the paths of men. Lo.NGFELLOW. 2. For hís chaste muse employed her lieaven — taugbt Ijre. Nono but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he would wish to Me:. LORD LITTLETON, on Tkomsan. 3. I,earn as ¡f you were to live for ever; live As... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1898 - 488 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1900 - 456 Seiten
...For years beyond his ken, The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men. LONGFELLOW. For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre, None...immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he would wish to blot LORD LITTLETON OH Thomson. Learn as if you were to live for ever ; live as if you... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1900 - 546 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,...which, dying, he could wish to blot. — LYTTELTON, GEORGE LORD, 1749, Prologue to Thomson's "Coriolanus." Thomson was blessed with a strong and copious... | |
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