 | 1834 - Počet stránok 784
...The true genius must never attempt to dazzle, but to gain sober and permanent admiration and love; " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art; To raise the fancy, and to mend the heart." Whatever poetry has not a moral use is defective. That poetry to which... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1834 - Počet stránok 502
...necessary ingredient of good poetry — verisimilitude. I do not think it a light benefit to mankind, To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the fancy, and to melt the heart — Such is the effect of an eloquent and noble fiction of poetry. It... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - Počet stránok 318
...thenceforth fixed at the head of the degenerate drama of England. PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art ; To raise...— For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, 5 Commanding tears to stream through every age : Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - Počet stránok 366
...picture there should be shade as well as light, and when I delineate him without reserve, I do (1) [" To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold." Pom.] what he himself recommended, both by his precept and his example: — " If the biographer writes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - Počet stránok 502
...muse forgot, and thou heloved no more ! PROLOGUE To Mr. Addisan's Tragedy of Calo. To wake the soul hy pass'xKg* hold, Live o'er each scene, and he what they hehold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - Počet stránok 332
...gasp be o'er, The muse forgot, and thou beloved no more 1 PROLOGUE To Mr. Addisrm's Tragedy of Goto. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart ; T./ make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : for this... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - Počet stránok 548
...And the muse triumph'd, where the patriot fail'd. AMBR. PHILIPS PROLOGUE, BY MR. POPE SPOKEN BY MR. WILKS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,...muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonderM how they wept.... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - Počet stránok 252
...the work itself, which will be mnted within few days. PROLOGUE TO CATO, BY MR. POPE. SPOKEN BY MR. WILKS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,...muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept. And foes to virtue womler'd how they wept.... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - Počet stránok 204
...and pressure ;" or, in other words, and by another modern—POPE—it is the province of the drama— "To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream from every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wondered how they wept."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - Počet stránok 884
...line of Spring. PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO [written 1713; published, Guardian, 1713] 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 thro' ev'ry age; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to... | |
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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... 
