 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.  Lives of Eminent Scotsmen - Strana 166podľa Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1801 - Počet stránok 186
...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 - Počet stránok 348
...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 - Počet stránok 336
...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 - Počet stránok 230
...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 - Počet stránok 532
...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 - Počet stránok 458
...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 - Počet stránok 414
...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 - Počet stránok 276
...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 - Počet stránok 824
...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 - Počet stránok 814
...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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