 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
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 pages
...vicissitudes of taste; With ev'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...; 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The...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 ; 'Tie yours,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...vicissitudes of taste ; With every 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 lire. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; Tis... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...vicissitudes of taste ; With ev'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 stage but echoes back the publick voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...vicissitudes of taste ; With ev'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 stage but echoes back the publick voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...vicissitudes of taste ; With ev'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 stage but echoes back the publick voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please... | |
 | George Colman - 1827 - 298 pages
...real genins , and the ultimate debasement of the drama. Thus it has been well observed by Johnson " The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For those that live to please, must please to live. JWL JOHN BULL, or. THE ENGLISHMAN'S FIRESIDE; A COMEDY,... | |
 | English drama - 1828 - 346 pages
...and oaths bring up the rear/* what have the softer sex to do, but to suit the action to ihc word t " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give ; For we, that live to please, must please to live." To be decent is well enough, to be " hey randy dandy O!" is better, to be popular is best of all !... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubble of the day. Ah ! let not седопге Kh equally productive of heultb. and pleasure. On...bear evidence of a kind and gentle heart, and a true Then prompt no more the follies yon ф'сгу, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; 'Tie yours... | |
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