 | Thomas F. Bonnell - 2008 - 403 pages
...tender woe :— For his cliafte Mufe employ'il her heaven-taught lyre, Nons but the nobleft paffions to infpire : Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, liecould'wifh to blot.— PROL. TO VOL. I. LONDON; PRINTED FOB JOSEPH WENMAN, No. 14$, FLEET-STREET.... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1762 - 574 pages
...Thomfon's Coriolanus : . For Ms chafte Mufe cnnploy'd her heav'n-tanght lyre None bpt the ncbldt pafiions to infpire. Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying, he could wilh to blot. But to cprne to Mr. Murdoch's Narrative. Mr. Thomfon was. born at Ednam, in the fliire... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1869 - 702 pages
...whose publications it can be written (as Lyttelton did of the poet Thomson) that he has put forth '• Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying he could wish to blot" To one excellent firm of this kind, (Messrs. Chas. Scribner & Co.,) our library ia indebted... | |
 | 1850 - 450 pages
...in u everybody's moutk." No line which dying he could wish to blot. It stands thus in the original : Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which dying he could wish to blot. LORD LYTTLETON. Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. To err is human, to forgive divine.... | |
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Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 
