 | James Thomas Kirkman - 1799 - 510 pages
...the day. Ah ! 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 that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...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 of guilt to die ; Tis yours,... | |
 | William Cook - 1806 - 244 pages
...— the stngc is at best but an echo of the public voice — a mere rainbow — all its gaudy colors arise from reflection, or as a modern bard more happily...For we that live to please, must please to live." Scaff. What then, after all, I find I am in a hobble.• Foote. May be not — come — hope for the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pages
...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 of guilt to die ; 'Tis Yours,... | |
 | John Styles - 1806 - 156 pages
...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 destructive; or who... | |
 | William Cook - 1806 - 240 pages
...please—the stage is at best, but an echo of the public voice—a mere rainbow—all its 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...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 of guilt to die ; Tis yours,... | |
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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. 
