 | John Platts - 1822 - Počet stránok 844
...quotation from Pope's Prologue to Addison's Cato, shews what the stage should be, to be useful to man : — To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature keep, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they weep.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - Počet stránok 426
...to the tragedy alone which it was designed to introduce. PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO* To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, 5 Commanding tears to stream through ev'ry age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - Počet stránok 428
...appropriated to the tragedy alone which it was designed to introduce. PROLOGUE MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO*. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, 5 Commanding tears to stream through ev'ry age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes... | |
 | 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...Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And, foes to virtue, wonder'jd how they... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - Počet stránok 180
...want 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 ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1823 - Počet stránok 750
...melts at when represented, is that which flows from the real spring of Helicon. To produce this is " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art ; To raise the fancy, and to mend the heart !" What creates mere wonder by its novelty and extravagance, certainly... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - Počet stránok 476
...yet 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...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 White Smith.... | |
 | British drama - 1824 - Počet stránok 834
...Egerton. Mutineers, Guards, &c. SCENE.— The Governor's Palace, in Utica. PROLOGUE. WRITTEN BY MR. POPE. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art. To raise...and be what they behold: For this, the tragic muse firsl trod Hie slage, Commanding tears to stream through every age; In pitying love we but our weakness... | |
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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... 
