...triumph'd where the patriot fail'd. AMBR. PHILIPS. PROLOGUE. BY MR. POPE. SPOKEN BY MR. WILKS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius,...stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author shuns...

...triumph'd, where the patriot fail'd. AMBR. PHILIPS. PROLOGUE By Mr. POPE. SPOKEN BY MR. WILKS. lO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius...stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author shuns...

...triumph'd, where the patriot fail'd. AMBR. PHILIPS. PROLOGUE By Mr. POPE. SPOKEN BY MR. WILKS. TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius...stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author shuns...

...o'er, The muse forgot, and thou belov'd no more! PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OP CATO. TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius,...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...

...lions, and to addict themselves to sack. XIV. — 'Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato. — POPE. TO wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius...bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold j For this the tragic muse first tred the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants...

...the sorrows and the tears of my eld fricr.d are full of virtue and instruction. His is a pen, To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius and to mend the heart. " TO DOCTOR ROBERT CECIL. " CARA-SELVA, Jan. irth, 1811.» "RESPECTED FRIEND, " Thy eighth number wns yesterday...

...him whik I live. §26. Prologue to Goto. 1713. POPS. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art. I'o raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind,...virtue bold. Live o'er each scene, and be what they bthci: : For this the tragic rouse first trod the su^r. Jonimanding tears to stream through et'ry apTyrants...

...only full of delight, butfertilt in amelioration ; calculated, as Pope beautifully says, " To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, " To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." Sfar Egerton proceeds, in an eloquent strain, to analyse the various kinds of poetry to which affected...

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...the vowels are unquestionably short, become heavy syllables when accented. Thus in Pope's distich " To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold," the word each is short in scansion, though long in quantity; and in the line " Man never is but'always...