 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 pages
...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 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... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 482 pages
...of the day. ' 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... | |
 | 1812 - 318 pages
...dis« 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pages
...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 give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you descry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 pages
...Mahomet, a ropedancer, who had exhibited at Covent-Garden Theatre the winter before, said to be a Turk. 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, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...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, 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
...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, 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... | |
 | 1822 - 292 pages
...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 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 - 1824 - 426 pages
...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 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 - 144 pages
...And chase the new-blown bubble 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 to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
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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. 
