 With every meteor of caprice must play. And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must...  The Family Library (Harper). - 276. oldal1847Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 oldal
...of chance) Here Hunt* may box, or Mahometf may dance. Hard is his lot that here by fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every...play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah 1 let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 oldal
...Hard is his lot that, here by Fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With ev'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the publick voice ; The drama's laws,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 oldal
...or Mahomet may dance. Hard is his lot that here by fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitndes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah I let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1809 - 428 oldal
...translators from that language. THE STAGE. * * " "* * f Hard is his lot, who here by fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new blown bubbles of the day, PRELIMINARY. WHATEVER importance may generally have been attached to... | |
 | 1809 - 402 oldal
...head of all translators from that language. THE SfAGE. Hard i« his lot, who here by fortune plac'fi, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new blown bubbles of the day. PRELIMINARY. WHATEVER importance may generally hare been attached to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 oldal
...ride ; Perhaps, for who can guess th' effects of chance ? Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet * may dance. Hard is his lot that, here by fortune placed, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; * Hunt, a famous boxer on the stage ; Mahomet, a rope dancer, who had exhibited at Covent Garden... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 oldal
...Hard is his lot that, here by Fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste; With cv'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Censure term oar fate our choice, The stage but echoes liack the public voice ; The drama's laws,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 oldal
...Mrs. Behn was a writer of loose plays arid novels, &c. and Tom Durfey was a facetious low dramatist. With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 oldal
...to be the ministers and slaves of public folly: " Hard is his fate, who here, by fortune plac'd, " Must watch the wild vicissitudes of Taste; " With every meteor of caprice must play, " And catch the new-blown bubbles of the day." The ground- work of this last species of Taste (if it deserves... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 482 oldal
...opening of Drury Lane Theatre, Sept. 20, 1747 ; " Hard is his lot, that, here by fortune plac'd, i " Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; " With...every meteor of caprice must play, ' And chase the uew-blown RUBRLES of the day. ' Ah ! let not censure term our fate onr choice ; ' The stage but echoes... | |
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