 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 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... | |
 | Sir John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 634 pages
...before. ' Ah ! let not cenfure term our fate our choice, ' The ftage but echoes back the public voice ; 1 The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, , * For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. f 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
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...publick voice ; The drama's laxvs, 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 of guilt to die ; * Hunt, a famous bnxer on the flage ; Mahomet, a ropedancer, who had exibited at Covent-Gaiden theatre... | |
 | Addison (pseud.) - Anecdotes - 1795 - 616 pages
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
