 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1801 - 186 страници
...Oft, in this crowded house, with just applause, You heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws ; For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None...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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 348 страници
...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...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... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 336 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Cuthbert Shaw, Thomas Park - 1807 - 230 страници
...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...immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. Oh ! may to-night yeur favourable doom Another laurel add, to grace his tomb :... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 страници
...woe. Oft in this crowded house, with just applause, You heard him teach fair virtue's purest Jaws: For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire ; . .1 Ingenio immortali JjlCOBl THOMSON) Poetce sublimis, Viri honi, JEdiculam hanc quam vivus dilexlt... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - 1822 - 458 страници
...and wail, And curse thy star, and early drudge and late, Withouten that would come an heavier hale, Loose life, unruly passions, and diseases pale. A...the Scottish church, who observed, at one of .those {eastings which distinguish " Sacrament Monday," at Scottish parsonages, that " it was unco weel Jamie... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 414 страници
...sentence of an ancient date ; And certes there is for it reason great, For, tho' sometimes it makes thec weep and wail. And curse thy star, and early drudge...dying, he would wish to blot. The only exception which 1 ever knew to be taken to Thomson, on the ground of religious principles was by an orthodox divine... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 страници
...Oft, in this crowded house, with just applause, You heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws: For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None...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... | |
 | 1822 - 824 страници
...happily says of Thomson's Muse, that she " cmploy'd her beav'ntaught lyre, None but the noblest panions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which, dying, he might wish to blot." VERMICULUS. Cfieettcood, near Manchester, SIR, July 19, 1822. HAVING frequently... | |
 | 1822 - 814 страници
...poet's friend, Lord Lyttlcton happily says of Thomson's Muse, that she " employ'd her heav'ntaught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not...one corrupted thought, One line, which, dying, he might wish to blot." VERMICULUS. Cheetieood, near Manchetter, SIR, July 19, 1822. HAVING frequently... | |
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Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 
