 | John Corry - 1809 - Страниц: 236
...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 thej> behold." 202 Bat a candid enquiry will convince us that our most popular plays have a pernicious... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 536
...be o'er, The Muse forgot, and Uiou belov'd no more ! PROLOGUE •to m. ADDISOS'S TRAGEDY or CATO. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...more their savage nature kept, And foes to Virtue wouclerM how they wept. Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - Страниц: 308
...plenty of his store, ' His labour past, his toil no more, Enjoys the port of rest. Prologut to Calo. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...muse first trod the stage Commanding tears to stream thro' ev'ry age; Tyrant* Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how... | |
 | Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - 1810 - Страниц: 336
...in the representation. To the Muse of Tragedy, therefore, Mr. Pope has assigned the noble task , To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold. He ascribes such power to a well-wrought scene,as to ask, When Cato groans, who does not wish to bleed... | |
 | Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - 1810 - Страниц: 338
...in the representation. To the Muse of Tragedy, therefore, Mr. Pope has assigned the noble task, To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold. He ascribes such power to a well-wrought «cene,as to ask, When Cato groans, who dues not \visli to... | |
 | 1810 - Страниц: 560
...aim of tragedy, is the proper aim of painting too ; and that, in both alike, it is the true glory, To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...and to mend the heart; To make mankind in conscious virtuebold, live o'er each scene, and be what they behold. It remains only to enquire, why, if this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Страниц: 546
...thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! IT* PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISOX'S TRAGEDY OP CATO. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart j To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, trie o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - Страниц: 220
...gasp be o'er, The muse forgot, and thou belov'd no more! PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OP CATO. TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...behold; For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, 5 Commanding tears to stream through ev'ry age. Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - Страниц: 424
...pota* lions, and to addict themselves to sack. XIV. — 'Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato. — POPE. TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold j For this the tragic muse first tred the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants... | |
 | 1814 - Страниц: 260
...Bven the sorrows and the tears of my eld fricr.d are full of virtue and instruction. His is a pen, To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius and to mend the heart. " TO DOCTOR ROBERT CECIL. " CARA-SELVA, Jan. irth, 1811.» "RESPECTED FRIEND, " Thy eighth number wns yesterday... | |
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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... 
