 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...  The Theater - Page 190by Samuel Gover Winchester - 1840 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...may dance. Hard is his lot that 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. Ah 1 let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...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... | |
 | 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, the drama's patrons... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pages
...ride; Perhaps (for who can guess the effects of chance) Here Hunt* may box, or Mahometf may danceHard 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 of the day — Ah! let not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 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, the drama's patrons... | |
 | 1822 - 292 pages
...ride; Perhaps (for who can guess the' 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 of the day. Ah! let not censure... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1824 - 144 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: With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubble of the day. Ah! let not censure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...[died, Perhaps (for who can guess th' effect« of chance?) [dunre. Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet* m»y 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 of the day. Ah ! let not... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...Behn was a writer of loose plays and novels* &c. ana Toni Durfey was a facetious low dramatist. Hani 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 of the day. Ah ! let not... | |
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