...and be what ihey behold ; F- r this the tragic muse first trod the stige, O-miia -divg tears to swam through every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature...kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our auttlor shuns by vu'gar springs to move The hero's glory or the virgin's love: In pitying love we but...

...strictures I promised. I hold DRAMATIC representations to be a species of entertainment calculated. " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, " To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." And I regret to find the players lavishing their talents on empty boxes, while balls, concerts, and...

...to fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name. PROLOGUE TO MIL ADDISOH'S TKAGEHV- or CATO. ng ; And truths divine came mended from that tongue. From lips like those what precep j To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this...

...soon be satisfied ! — [Leaps down. Manchester, Oct.3, 1821. THE DRAMATIST. No. I. BY G. CREED. 1 To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...For this the TRAGIC MUSE first trod the stage."— THROUGHOUT the whole circle of human inventions and institutions, there is no one (generally speaking)...

...quotation from Pope's Prologue to Addison's Cato, shews what the stage should be, to be useful to man : — 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 keep, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they weep....

...to the tragedy alone which it was designed to introduce. PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO* To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...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...

...appropriated to the tragedy alone which it was designed to introduce. PROLOGUE MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO*. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise...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...

...earnests of the work itself, which will be printed within a few days. PROLOGUE TO CATO. BY MR. POPE. Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For...Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream thro' every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And, foes to virtue, wonder'jd how they...

...want interest and life. For my part , I have no yalue for those writings , which have not the power « To wake the soul by tender strokes of Art, To raise the genius , and to mend the heart : « which merely exercise the reader's mind with the freaks of a wanton or a forced imagination ;...

...lost " That is not spent in lore." SECRET HISTORY OF THE BRITISH STAGE. To wake the sonl by gentle strokes of art, • , To raise the genius, and to...mend the heart ; To make mankind in conscious virtue hold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold. For this Dramatic Geninstrod the stage. Commanding...