 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 trang
...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...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, 5 Commanding tears to stream through ev'ry age ; Tyrants... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 trang
...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...bold, 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... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 trang
...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 ;... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 trang
...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...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold; For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 trang
...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...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, ' Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants... | |
 | 1823 - 614 trang
...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 - 536 trang
...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 - 750 trang
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 trang
...scarcely surpassed in vigour of expression and elevation of sentiment by any passage in his own works." To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...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... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 trang
...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...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the *tage; TA M CAROLINE and ZELITE, or TRANSATLANTIC TALES,... | |
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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... 
