 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - Страниц: 490
...him whik I live. §26. Prologue to Goto. 1713. POPS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art. I'o raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind,...virtue bold. Live o'er each scene, and be what they bthci: : For this the tragic rouse first trod the su^r. Jonimanding tears to stream through et'ry apTyrants... | |
 | 1816 - Страниц: 676
...lesson not only full of delight, butfertilt in amelioration ; calculated, as Pope beautifully says, " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, " To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." Sfar Egerton proceeds, in an eloquent strain, to analyse the various kinds of poetry to which affected... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1816 - Страниц: 574
...the vowels are unquestionably short, become heavy syllables when accented. Thus in Pope's distich " To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold," the word each is short in scansion, though long in quantity; and in the line " Man never is but'always... | |
 | Christian Fürchtegott Gellert - 1818 - Страниц: 386
...©ranbtfon« mit einet 2ítt »on fuget SBe&muti) einige bet merfroùrbiajîen ©timben *) To awake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the Genius and to mend the Heart. fítc mdn í>etj tjerweinet; bafùt banfe ici) bit nocí) itjt, 0licí)atbfon! (Sine иог}йдПфе... | |
 | William Wirt - 1818 - Страниц: 222
...and the tears of my eld friend are full of virtue and instruction. His is a pen, To wake the soul fey tender strokes of art, To raise the genius and to mend the heart; " TO DOCTOR ROBERT CECIL. " CARA-SELVA, Jan. 17th, 1811. "REsPECTED FRIEND, " Thy eighth number wivs yesterday... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - Страниц: 366
...which 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...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 - Страниц: 448
...such a 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...what they behold : For this the tragic muse first trode the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every agej Tyrants no more their savage nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - Страниц: 638
...virtue hold. Lire o'er each scene, and he what they hehold i For this the Tragic Mute first trod xhe stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age; Tyrants no more their savage natore kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Oor author shons hy volgar springs to move... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - Страниц: 398
...potations, and to addict themselves to sack. XIV. — Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato.— Pots. TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...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 - Страниц: 422
...thin 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...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... | |
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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... 
