 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 320 pages
...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, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature, and reviving sense; To chase... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1824 - 140 pages
...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 this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature, and reviving Sense ; To chase... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1824 - 144 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 decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 pages
...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 ; * Hunt, a famous boxer on the stage. i Mahomet, a rope dancer, who bad exhibited at Cerent Garden... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1830 - 348 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 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... | |
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The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 
