 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...grand objet est votre approbation ! PROLOGUE TO ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO. To wake the soul by tcnder strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To inake mankind in conscious virtue bold , Lave o'er each scene, and be what they behold ; For this the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...what I now decide; The equipage si\all grace Smilinda's side; 110 PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S CATO. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene and he what they hehold : For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage, 5 Commanding tears to stream tbrough... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...you. PROLOGUE To Mr. Addison's Cato, TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art. To raise the ger-ins, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, X,ive o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage, Commanding... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...of light adorns, Who grasps the struggling heifer's lunar horns.* PROLOGUE to MR. AUDISON'S CATO. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder 'd how they wept. Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...wake the soul by tender strokes of art To ra.se the genins, and to mem! the heart ; Jo make mankmd in conscious virtue bold Live o'er each scene, and...behold . For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage Commandmg tears to stream through everv ace . Jyrants no more their savage nature kept And foes to... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 240 pages
...the first couplet in Pope's fine prologue to Cato, the aim of Goldsmith has constantly been, V " To wake the soul, by tender strokes of art ; To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." An encomium in which it is to be lamented so very few can share with him. It would not be easy to find,'... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 368 pages
...what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse (1. st trod the stage, .Commanding tears to stream thro' every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonderM how they wept. Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgiu's... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...o'er, The Muse forgot, and thou belov'd no mort ! § 12. Prologue toMr.AddinorCsTragedynfCato. Pope. To ping 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 Kemble - 1809 - 336 pages
...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 George Kemble - 1809 - 338 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
