 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 440 ページ
...PROLOGUE TO A DRAMA, PERFORMED BY A FAMILY PARTY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MR. AND MRS. C.'S MARRIAGE " TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart," — Hold, hold ! that 's not my cue, we 've no intention By " tender strokes " to sharpen girls' invention... | |
 | 1826 - 502 ページ
...Jacing the Audience. ORIGINAL PROLOGUE TO CATO, WRITTEN II V Mfl.POPg, AND SPOKEN II Y MR. Wll.KS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the...muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream througli every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they... | |
 | Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1826 - 520 ページ
...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 the...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 ページ
...they hehold : 22 For this the Tragie Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream throngh d sings aloug the skies: 366 He miss'd the mark ; hut pierced Gorgythio wouder'd how they wept. Our anthor shuus hy vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's... | |
 | D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 ページ
...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 the...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 the...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 the...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
...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...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... | |
 | 1828 - 342 ページ
...would be impossible to point out a truly virtuous character, or an elevated sentiment,— • , , " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." His men are either rakes or cuckolds ; and, if all his women be not absolute wantons (and Angelica... | |
 | Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 ページ
...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 the...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 ?... | |
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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... 
