 | 1814 - 260 trang
...Bven the sorrows and the tears of my eld fricr.d are full of virtue and instruction. His is a pen, To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius and to mend the heart. " TO DOCTOR ROBERT CECIL. " CARA-SELVA, Jan. irth, 1811.» "RESPECTED FRIEND, " Thy eighth number wns yesterday... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 trang
...him whik I live. §26. Prologue to Goto. 1713. POPS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art. I'o raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind,...virtue bold. Live o'er each scene, and be what they bthci: : For this the tragic rouse first trod the su^r. Jonimanding tears to stream through et'ry apTyrants... | |
 | 1816 - 676 trang
...lesson not only full of delight, butfertilt in amelioration ; calculated, as Pope beautifully says, " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, " To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." Sfar Egerton proceeds, in an eloquent strain, to analyse the various kinds of poetry to which affected... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1816 - 574 trang
...the vowels are unquestionably short, become heavy syllables when accented. Thus in Pope's distich " To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold," the word each is short in scansion, though long in quantity; and in the line " Man never is but'always... | |
 | Christian Fürchtegott Gellert - 1818 - 386 trang
...©ranbtfon« mit einet 2ítt »on fuget SBe&muti) einige bet merfroùrbiajîen ©timben *) To awake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the Genius and to mend the Heart. fítc mdn í>etj tjerweinet; bafùt banfe ici) bit nocí) itjt, 0licí)atbfon! (Sine иог}йдПфе... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 366 trang
...itself, which will be printed within a few days. , PROLOGUE TO CATO. BY MR. POPE, i SPOKEN BY MR. WILKS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age; Q 2 Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 trang
...such a sot ? " Let him take castles, who has ne'er a groat." Pope, 37. — Prologue to Cato : 1713. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art ; To raise...what they behold : For this the tragic muse first trode the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every agej Tyrants no more their savage nature... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 trang
...thin potations, and to addict themselves to sack. XIV. — Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato.— Pots. TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...what they behold ; For this the tragic muse first (rod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savnge nature... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 trang
...forswear thin tious, and to addict themselves to sack. XIV.— Pi -ologxe to the Tragedy of Cato^—Por±, TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold f For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ;. Tyrants... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 trang
...strokes ?f art, To raise the genius and to mend the heart, To make mankind in conscioas virtue bold, ^ t Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold ; For...stream through every age ; •Tyrants no more their favage nature kept, And foes to virtue, wonder'd how they wept. Our author shuns by vulgar springs... | |
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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... 
