 | British poets - 1809 - 504 pages
...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 of guilt to die ; I ' J is yours,... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 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 follies you decry, At tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die: Tis yours this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 133 pages
...the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes hack 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 of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 484 pages
...' Ah ! let not censure term our fate onr 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 OF GUILT to die." The months... | |
 | 1812 - 318 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pages
...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 descry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; 'Tis yours,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 370 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 follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 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. . Hunt, a famous boxer on the stage; Mahomet, a rope-dancer, who had exhibited at CoventGarden theatre... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 324 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 follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; Tis yours,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 292 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 follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to... | |
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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. 
