 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.  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 608edited by - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1789 - 248 pages
...And chafe the new-blown bubbles of 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... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 370 pages
...bubbles of 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1791 - 302 pages
...And chace the new-blown bubbles of 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... | |
 | Addison (pseud.) - Anecdotes - 1795 - 616 pages
...And chafe the new-blown bubbles of 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...chafe the new-blown bubble of the dav. Ah ! let not ctnfure term our fate our choice, Г he ft age but echoes back the public voice ; The Drama's laws the Drama's patrons give, For we that live to pícale, muft pícale to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | James Thomas Kirkman - Theater - 1799 - 510 pages
...And chace the new-blown bubbles of 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... | |
 | Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 544 pages
...And chace the new blown bubble of the day. Ah T 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, who live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...bubbles of 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 - Biography - 1801 - 422 pages
...bubbles of 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... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...mere rainbow; all its gaudy colours 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." Sraff'. Why then, after all, I find I am in a hobble. Foote. May be not; come, hope for the best. Prompter?... | |
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