 | Patrick MacDonell - 1840 - 74 pages
...gladiators, to the more graceful and refined efforts, of those, whose noble task was, To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold. As we advance in the play, we find Prospero THE TEMPEST. availing himself of the dark secrets of his... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...quantity of drum, trumpet, thunder, lightning, or the scene-shifter's whistle." — GOLDSMITH.! (2) [" For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; fyrants no more their savage nature kept, Folly, by Dulness arm'd, eludes the wound, And harmless... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. PROLOGUE TO MB. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OP CATO. To wake the soul by vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast. CHORUS. The...once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her womler'd how they wept. Our author ehuns by vulgar springs to move The hero'» glory, or the virgin's... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. PROLOGUE TO MB. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO. To wake the soul by he 'd viilgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love ; In pitying Love, we but our weakness... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDl8ON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO. To wake the soul by j Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to Virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author shuns... | |
 | American periodicals - 1845 - 448 pages
...to our moral integrity, instead of illustrating the sentiment of the poet — "To wake the soul by tender strokes of art. To raise the genius and to mend the heart, To make mankind in conscioas virtue bold, Live o'er each scene and be what they behold ; For this the tragic muse first... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 pages
...vigour of expression and elevation of sentiment by any passage in his own works." To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to...behold : For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, 5 Commanding tears to stream through ev'ry age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...quantity of drum, trumpet, thunder, lightning, or the scene-shifter's whistle." — GOLDSMITH.] 41 [" For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants'no more their savage nature kept, Andfi>esto virtue wonder'd liow they w:ept." — POPE.]... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. XI PROLOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF CATO \ To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to...wonder'd how they wept. Our author shuns by vulgar themes to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love : In pitying love we but our weakness show, And... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...where, Pores on the graves, and sighs a broken prayer. Some hoary shepherd, o'er his staff reclined, For this the tragic muse first trod the stage : Commanding tears to stream through every age. There various news I heard of love and strife ; Of peace and war, health, sickness, death and life... | |
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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... 
