 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 ; With every meteor of caprice must play. And chase the new-blown bubbles...  The adventures of a man of family - Page 45by lord William Pitt Lennox - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pages
...every Meteor of Caprice muft play, And chace the new-blown Bubbles of the Day. Ah! let not Cenfure term our Fate, our Choice: The Stage but echoes back...public Voice, The Drama's Laws, the Drama's Patrons g|ve, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the Follies you decry, As... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pages
...; With ev'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chace 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, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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