 | William Cook - 1806 - 240 oldal
...gaudy colors arise from reflection, or as a modern bard more happily says— " The drama's laws—the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live." Scoff. What then, after all, I find I am in a hobble. Foote. May be not—«come—hope for the best.—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 oldal
...bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Cenfure term our fate our choice, The ftage but echoes back the publick voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 oldal
...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 laws, the drama's patrons...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; I ' J is yours, this uight, to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature, and reviving sense ; To... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 oldal
...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...please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follics you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; Tis yours, this night, to bid the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 oldal
...Hard is his lot that, here by Fortune placM, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste; With ev'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown...tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 oldal
...new born babble* 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...to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, At tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die: Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescu'd... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 472 oldal
...new-blown RUBRLES 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...DECRY, " As tyrants doom their TOOLS OF GUILT to die." The months of May and June 1 808 were destined to deprive the lovers of good acting of two very deserving... | |
 | 1812 - 318 oldal
...subject of dis« ussion. Ah ! let not censure terra 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 please to live. It was one of the primitive properties of poetry to impress more firmly and forcibly on the memory... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 476 oldal
...new-blown RURRLRS of the day. ' Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice ; ' The stsge but echoes back the public voice : ' The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give; ' For we, that LIVR to PLRASR, must PLRASR to LIVR. " Then PROMPT no more the FOLLIKS you DRCRY, " As tyrants doom... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 oldal
...Mahomet, a ropedancer, who had exhibited at Covent-Garden Theatre the winter before, said to be a Turk. The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we...tools of guilt to die ; Tis Yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp... | |
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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 please to live. 
