 | Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 544 páginas
...muft play, And chace the new blown bubble of the day. Ah T let not cenfure term our fate our choice, The ftage but echoes back the public voice.. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom... | |
 | 1804 - 452 páginas
...mere rainbow; all its gaudy colours 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." Sraff'. Why then, after all, I find I am in a hobble. Foote. May be not;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 páginas
...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 laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you descry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | William Cook - 1805 - 238 páginas
...rainbow — all its gaudy colours arise from reflection, or a« 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 páginas
...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,...pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; * Hunt, a famous boxer on the ftage ; Mahomet,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 páginas
...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, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | John Styles - 1806 - 156 páginas
...refer are these; they are extracted from a prologue written by Johnson, and spoken by Garrick:— " The Drama's Laws, the Drama's Patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. ' * the pestilence into their neighbourhood, because it has not been universally... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...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 laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please — to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 páginas
...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 please to live. Then prompt no more the follics you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 páginas
...And chase the 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 give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, At tyrants doom their tools... | |
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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. 
