 the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius and to mend the heart, To make mankind in conscious virtue bol'd, 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...  American Education - Pagina 6471906Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 366 pagine
...will be printed within a few days. , PROLOGUE TO CATO. BY MR. POPE, i SPOKEN BY MR. WILKS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius,...stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age; Q 2 Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pagine
...sot ? " Let him take castles, who has ne'er a groat." Pope, 37.—Prologue to Cato : 1713. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art; To raise the genius,...bold, Live o'er each scene., and be what they behold: 46 . For this the tragic muse first trode the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every agej... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pagine
...would teach them, should be—to forswear thin potations, and to addict themselves to sack. TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius...what they behold ; For this the tragic muse first (rod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savnge nature... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pagine
...tious, and to addict themselves to sack. XIV.—Pi-ologxe to the Tragedy of Cato^—Por±, TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold f For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ;. Tyrants... | |
 | John Corry - 1820 - 332 pagine
...be a powerful monitor— " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To mend the genius, and inform the heart; To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold." But a candid inquiry will convince us that oar most popular plays have a pernicious effect on the mind.... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 408 pagine
...potations, and to adict themselves to sack. • - XIV—Prologue ti the Tragedy of Cato—POPE. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius and to mead the heart, To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pagine
...o'er, The muse forgot, and thou be loved no more I PROLOGUE TO MB. ADDISON'S TBAGKEDY OF CATO. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius,...trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through ev'ry age; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, 1 And foes to virtue wondered how they wept. Our... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pagine
...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 the genius,...stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age: Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author shuns... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pagine
...ease, and nights of pleasure; Sacred Hymen ! those are thine. PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S CATO. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius,...stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age: Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author shuns... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pagine
...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 the genius,...muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature keep, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they weep.... | |
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