LLLord Lyttleton

9 collected words

Lord Lyttleton

Life dates: 1709 AD — 1773 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1741 AD

For his chaste 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.

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02c. 1741 AD

Women, like princes, find few real friends.

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03c. 1741 AD

What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.

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04c. 1741 AD

The lover in the husband may be lost.

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05c. 1741 AD

How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

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06c. 1741 AD

None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.

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07c. 1741 AD

Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.

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08c. 1741 AD

Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know That never feels a pain.

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09c. 1741 AD

Who bids me hope, and in that charming word Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd.

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