 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 440 lehte
...PROLOGUE TO A DRAMA, PERFORMED BY A FAMILY PARTY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MR. AND MRS. C.'S MARRIAGE " TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart," — Hold, hold ! that 's not my cue, we 've no intention By " tender strokes " to sharpen girls' invention... | |
 | 1826 - 502 lehte
...Jacing the Audience. ORIGINAL PROLOGUE TO CATO, WRITTEN II V Mfl.POPg, AND SPOKEN II Y MR. Wll.KS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream througli every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they... | |
 | Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1826 - 520 lehte
...something to please, and something to instruct;" and, lastly, in a fit of enthusiasm, exclaim, " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...o'er each scene, and be what they behold ;" For this great Jocko's self first leap'd the stage ; For this was pufiPd in ev'ry well-bribed page, From evening... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 lehte
...they hehold : 22 For this the Tragie Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream throngh d sings aloug the skies: 366 He miss'd the mark ; hut pierced Gorgythio wouder'd how they wept. Our anthor shuus hy vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's... | |
 | D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 lehte
...of the stage next demand discussion. The theatre has often been styled " the School of Morals." 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 kept, And foes to virtue wonder how they wept.*... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 234 lehte
...Unjour, dit un ameur, SfC. ^ — tothefollowins Q»«s(io» ^3/''5' H PROLOGUE To Mr. Addison's Caio. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wondered how they wept, Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's... | |
 | 1828 - 714 lehte
...Stage was originally instituted, according to the beautiful and well-known description of Pope : " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, aud be what they behold, For this the tragic Muse first trod the Stage, Commanding tears to flow, through... | |
 | 1828 - 758 lehte
...Stage was originally instituted, according to the beautiful and well-known description of Pope : "To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...the heart, To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, JLive o'er each scene, and be what they behold, For this the tragic Muse first trod the Stage, Commanding... | |
 | 1828 - 342 lehte
...would be impossible to point out a truly virtuous character, or an elevated sentiment,— • , , " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." His men are either rakes or cuckolds ; and, if all his women be not absolute wantons (and Angelica... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 lehte
...potations, and to adict themselves to sack. XIV. — Prologue to the Tragedy of Cata. — POPE. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold 5 For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age j Tyrants... | |
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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... 
