 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...fail'd. AMBR. PHILIPS, TOL. i.— 17 PROLOGUE BY MB. POPE. SPOKEN BY MB. WILKS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius and to...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... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...indiscretion into all the dangers with which life abounds." WITH THE INFINITIVE MOOD : " To wake the sbul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind in c6nscious virtue b61d, Live 6'er each scene and be what they beh61d, For this the tragic muse first... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 596 pages
...where the patriot failed. AMBE. PHILIPS. PEOLOGUE BY ME. POPE. SPOKEN BT ME. WILKS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius and to...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 578 pages
...nobler one than seems to have been dreamed of in the philosophy of M. Dumas : — " To wuke the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to...stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age." But, as we have said before, it is vain to criticize in the dark. Our blows, falling at random upon... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...where the patriot fail'd. AMBR. PHILIPS. PBOLOaUE BY ME. POPE. SPOKEN BY MB. WILKS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius and to...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...treasure, and her bounds enlarg'd : PROLOGUE BY MR. POPE. SPOKEN BY ME. WILES. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius and to...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... | |
 | Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - Actresses - 1854 - 474 pages
...its chief uses. But there are other uses which address themselves to the mass. Pope tells us, — " To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er...stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age." * And even the stern Crabbe has said,f — " Yet Virtue owns the Tragic Muse a friend; Fable her means... | |
 | English drama - 1854 - 836 pages
...Tyrantx no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wondCT'clhow they wept. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to...conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be nhat they behojd Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory or the virgin's love;... | |
 | Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - Actresses - 1854 - 516 pages
...its chief uses. But there are other uses which address themselves to the mass. Pope tells us, — " To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold. Live o'er...they behold; For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stnge, Commanding tears to stream through every age." • • And even the stern Crabbe has said,f... | |
 | Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - Actresses - 1854 - 460 pages
...its chief uses. But there are other uses which address themselves to the mass. Pope tells us, — " To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er...and be what they behold ; For this the Tragic Muse hrst trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age." » And even the stern Crabbe has... | |
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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... 
