 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 Seiten
...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...in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 Seiten
...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...in conscious virtue bold, 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 Seiten
...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...in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold ; For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 Seiten
...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...in conscious virtue bold, 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... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, ' Commanding tears to stream through... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 Seiten
...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...in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold; For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through... | |
 | 1823 - 614 Seiten
...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 - 750 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1823 - 536 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
