 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. PROLOGUE TO MIL ADDISOH'S TKAGEHV- or CATO. To ; And truths divine came mended from that tongue. From lips like those what precep j To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this... | |
 | 1820 - 56 pages
...strictures I promised. I hold DRAMATIC representations to be a species of entertainment calculated. " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, " To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." And I regret to find the players lavishing their talents on empty boxes, while balls, concerts, and... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...them' selves to sack. XIV — Prologue to the Tragedy o/Cato. TO wake the soul by tender 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 this the tragic muse... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...themselves to sack. XIV— Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato — POPE. TO wake the soul by tender stroke* of art, To raise the genius and to mend the heart, To nr-tke mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each bcene, and be what ihey behold ; F- r this... | |
 | Theater - 1821 - 436 pages
...soon be satisfied ! — [Leaps down. Manchester, Oct.3, 1821. THE DRAMATIST. No. I. BY G. CREED. 1 To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...For this the TRAGIC MUSE first trod the stage."— THROUGHOUT the whole circle of human inventions and institutions, there is no one (generally speaking)... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...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 the...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 - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...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 the...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 - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...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 the...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 - 508 pages
...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 - 180 pages
...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 ;... | |
| |
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... 
