 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 512 Seiten
...Miss Lacy. Mrs. Faucit. ORIGINAL PROLOGUE TO CATO, WRITTEN BY Mil. POPE, AND SPOKEN BY MB. WII.KS. 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... | |
 | D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 Seiten
...benefits 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...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'... | |
 | 1828 - 714 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...the 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 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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 Seiten
...according to Aristotle, " to purge out passions by means of pity and terror." According to Pope, it was " 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." Such being the object and nature of the drama, he would ask, could it be censurable... | |
 | 1829 - 506 Seiten
...received decided him in his choice, and from that instant he determined " To wake the soul by gentle strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." After leaving Birmingham, our hero performed with undiminished success at Liverpool, Dublin, Bath,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...gasp be o'er, The muse forgot, and thou beloved no more .' PROLOGUE To Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Colo. e a country, and then raise a town. 190 You, too, proceed ! make falling arts your care, Erect new be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 284 Seiten
...muse triumph'd, where the patriot fail'd. AMBR. PHILIPS. > PROLOGUE BY MR. POPE. SPOKEN BY MR. 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... | |
 | Denny R. Thomason - 1831 - 218 Seiten
...benefits 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...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'... | |
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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... 
