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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416315" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prologue To Mallet's Mustapha</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since Athens first began to draw mankind, <br>To picture life, and show the impassion'd mind; <br>The truly wise have ever deem'd the stage <br>The moral school of each enlighten'd age. <br>There, in full pomp, the tragic Muse appears, <br>Queen of soft sorrows, and of useful fears. <br>Faint is the lesson reason's rules impart: <br>She pours it strong, and instant through the heart. <br>If virtue is her theme, we sudden glow <br>With generous flame; and what we feel, we grow. <br>If vice she paints, indignant passions rise; <br>The villain sees himself with loathing eyes. <br>His soul starts, conscious, at another's groan, <br>And the pale tyrant trembles on his throne. <br>To-night, our meaning scene attempts to show <br>What fell events from dark suspicion flow; <br>Chief when it taints a lawless monarch's mind, <br>To the false herd of flattering slaves confined. <br>The soul sinks gradual to so dire a state; <br>E'en excellence but serves to feed its hate: <br>To hate remorseless cruelty succeeds, <br>And every worth, and every virtue bleeds. <br>Behold, our author at your bar appears, <br>His modest hopes depress'd by conscious fears. <br>Faults he has many—but to balance those, <br>His verse with heart-felt love of virtue glows: <br>All slighter errors let indulgence spare, <br>And be his equal trial full and fair. <br>For this best British privilege we call, <br>Then—as he merits, let him stand or fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Thomson">James Thomson</a><div class=q>
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To picture life, and show the impassion'd mind; 
The truly wise have ever deem'd the stage 
The moral school of each enlighten'd age. 
There, in full pomp, the tragic Muse appears, 
Queen of soft sorrows,..."></div>
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