 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - Počet stránok 180
...interest and life. For my part , I have no yalue for those writings , which have not the power « To wake the soul by tender strokes of Art, To raise the genius , and to mend the heart : « which merely exercise the reader's mind with the freaks of a wanton or a forced imagination ;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - Počet stránok 508
...earnests of the work itself, which will be printed within a few days. PROLOGUE TO CATO. BY MR. POPE. Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - Počet stránok 762
...itself, which will be printed within a few days. PROLOGUE TO CATO. BY MR. POPE. SPOKEN BY Mil. WILKS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, ' Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - Počet stránok 396
...forswear thin potations, and to addict themselves to sack. XIV. — Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato. TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...and be what they behold; For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature... | |
 | 1823 - Počet stránok 614
...lost " That is not spent in lore." SECRET HISTORY OF THE BRITISH STAGE. To wake the sonl by gentle strokes of art, • , To raise the genius, and to...mend the heart ; To make mankind in conscious virtue hold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold. For this Dramatic Geninstrod the stage. Commanding... | |
 | 1823 - Počet stránok 536
...compelled to suspend his anathema, and confess, that the magic business of the stage may be managed " To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold." The popularity of this tragedy cannot be a subject of surprise — it has all the materials of popularity... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - Počet stránok 476
...aspire to her favors, we beg to transcribe these lines, with which we shall close this article : To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the *tage; TA M CAROLINE and ZELITE, or TRANSATLANTIC TALES, taken from real life. fly Anna... | |
 | British drama - 1824 - Počet stránok 834
...Mutineers, Guards, &c. SCENE.— The Governor's Palace, in Utica. PROLOGUE. WRITTEN BY MR. POPE. To Z|O V zzq firsl trod Hie slage, Commanding tears to stream through every age; In pitying love we but our weakness... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1824 - Počet stránok 140
...beamy god, in glory go at last ! c 102 PROLOGUES, ODES, &c. ENGLISH. PROLOGUE TO CATO. 1713. POPE. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...each scene, and be what they behold : For this the tragick Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - Počet stránok 400
...scarcely surpassed in vigour of expression and elevation of sentiment by any passage in his own works." Xo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : NOTES. * This Prologue, and the Epilogue (to Jane Shore) are the most perfect models of this species... | |
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold... 
