| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 páginas
...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...Live o'er each 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 páginas
...to 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...Live o'er each 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... | |
| sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 páginas
...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 ;... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 762 páginas
...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...Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, ' Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...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...Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold; For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no... | |
| 1823 - 614 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1824 - 140 páginas
...beamy god, in glory go at last ! c 102 PROLOGUES, ODES, &c. ENGLISH. PROLOGUE TO CATO. 1713. POPE. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the tragick Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants... | |
| Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 páginas
...yet aspire to her favors, we beg to transcribe these lines, with which we shall close this article : To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the *tage; TA M CAROLINE and ZELITE, or TRANSATLANTIC TALES, taken... | |
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