| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...of light adorns, Who grasps the struggling heifer's lunar horns.* PROLOG UE TO MR, AIJDISON'S CATO. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genins, and- to mend the heart ; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...o'er, The Muse forgot, and thou belov'd no mort ! § 12. Prologue toMr.AddinorCsTragedynfCato. Pope. heaping wealth by the. most ready way A lining the Jews, ttte stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' e\'iy age; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And... | |
| Stephen George Kemble - 1809 - 338 pages
...of love ; The infant sisters, fairest of the nine, Nor ocean could restrain, nor realms confine ; " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, " To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." For this they journied on through tracks unknown, And charmed Britannia on her sea-girt throne ; This... | |
| Stephen Kemble - 1809 - 336 pages
...of love ; The infant sisters, fairest of the nine, Nor ocean could restrain, nor realms confine ; " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, " To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." For this they journied on through tracks unknown, And charmed Britannia on her sea-girt throne ; This... | |
| John Corry - 1809 - 236 pages
...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... | |
| 1810 - 350 pages
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| John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...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...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 they wept.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...gasp 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...Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to Virtue wouclerM how they wept.... | |
| Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - 1810 - 338 pages
...sympathize 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...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... | |
| Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - 1810 - 336 pages
...sympathize 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...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... | |
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