 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 lehte
...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...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 no more their savage... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 lehte
...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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 508 lehte
...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 this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age; Tyrants no more their savage... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 lehte
...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...scene, and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, ' Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 lehte
...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...scene, and be what they behold; For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage... | |
 | 1823 - 614 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | British drama - 1824 - 834 lehte
...Mills. Miss S. Booth. Mrs. Egerton. Mutineers, Guards, &c. SCENE.— The Governor's Palace, in Utica. PROLOGUE. WRITTEN BY MR. POPE. To wake the soul by...scene, 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1824 - 144 lehte
...Blessed by thy beamy god, in glory go at last! PROLOGUES, ODES, &c. ENGLISH. PROLOGUE TO OATO. 1713. POPE. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To...each scene, and be what they behold: For this the tragick Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their... | |
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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... 
