 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 literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah 1 let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage...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 - 1805 - 238 pages
...rainbow — all its gaudy colours arise from reflection, or a« 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, after all, I find I am in a hobble. Foote. May be not — come — hope for the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...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 of guilt to die ; 'Tis Yours,... | |
 | John Styles - Sermons, English - 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...vicissitudes of taste ; With ev'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chace 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... | |
 | William Cook - Dramatists, English - 1806 - 240 pages
...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, after all, I find I am in a hobble. Foote. May be not—«come—hope for the best.—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...said to be a Turk. Withev'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The...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,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah I let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage...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
...vicissitudes of taste; Vfifti every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new born babble* of the day. Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The...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... | |
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