 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 페이지
...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...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 페이지
...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...and be what they behold ; For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age : Tyrants no more their savage nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 페이지
...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...and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, 5 Commanding tears to stream through ev'ry age ; Tyrants no more their savage... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 페이지
...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...and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, 5 Commanding tears to stream through ev'ry age ; Tyrants no more their savage... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 페이지
...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 페이지
...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... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 페이지
...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...and be what they behold; For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 페이지
...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...and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, ' Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage... | |
 | 1823 - 614 페이지
...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 페이지
...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... 
