 | Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1826 - 520 ページ
...new, something to please, and something to instruct;" and, lastly, in a fit of enthusiasm, exclaim, " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...o'er each scene, and be what they behold ;" For this great Jocko's self first leap'd the stage ; For this was pufiPd in ev'ry well-bribed page, From evening... | |
 | D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 ページ
...benefits of the stage next demand discussion. The theatre has often been styled " the School of Morals." To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder how they wept.*... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 234 ページ
...Unjour, dit un ameur, SfC. ^ — tothefollowins Q»«s(io» ^3/''5' H PROLOGUE To Mr. Addison's Caio. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wondered how they wept, Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's... | |
 | 1828 - 714 ページ
...Stage was originally instituted, according to the beautiful and well-known description of Pope : " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, aud be what they behold, For this the tragic Muse first trod the Stage, Commanding tears to flow, through... | |
 | 1828 - 758 ページ
...the Stage was originally instituted, according to the beautiful and well-known description of Pope : "To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...the heart, To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, JLive o'er each scene, and be what they behold, For this the tragic Muse first trod the Stage, Commanding... | |
 | Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 ページ
...according to Aristotle, " to purge out passions by means of pity and terror." According to Pope, it was " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold." Such being the object and nature of the drama, he would ask, could it be censurable to support it ?... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 ページ
...thin potations, and to adict themselves to sack. XIV. — Prologue to the Tragedy of Cata. — POPE. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold 5 For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age j Tyrants... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 306 ページ
...beneath them. The objects of the drama cannot be better explained than io the following lines: — ' To wake the soul by tender strokes of art ; To raise...in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and fie what they behold — For Ms the tragic nmtefirtl trod the itage.' And not only the tragic muse,... | |
 | Denny R. Thomason - 1831 - 218 ページ
...benefits of the stage next demand discussion. The theatre has often been styled " the School of Morals." To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And ibes to virtue wonder how they wept.*... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 ページ
...General, 'such a sot ? " Let him take castles who has ne'er a groat." POPE37. PROLOGUE TO CATO; 1J13. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art ; To raise...be what they behold: For this the tragic muse first trode the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature... | |
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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... 
