 | 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...trod the stage, 5 Commanding tears to stream through ev'ry age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 lehte
...Days of ease, and nights of pleasure ; Sacred Hymen ! these are thine. PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S CATO. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...behold ; For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age : Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 lehte
...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...behold : For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature keep, And foes to virtue... | |
 | 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 nature kept, And, foes to... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 388 lehte
...Addison's Cato, where he represents the sudden operation of ihis feeling excited by the tragic muse : Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd why they wept. Of his Lives, likewise, several are unfortunately lost. but two, more especially, demand... | |
 | 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...behold; For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to... | |
 | 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...behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, ' Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
