| 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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