| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 4111 |
| AUTHOR: | Lord Lyttleton (17091773) |
| QUOTATION: | For his chaste Muse employd 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Prologue to Thomsons Coriolanus. |
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