 | Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 544 pages
...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... | |
 | 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?... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah 1 let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons...please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you descry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence... | |
 | 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....tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis Yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 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. * Hunt, a famous boxer on the stage ; Mahomet, a ropedancer, who had exhibited at Convent-Garden Theatre... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah I let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; I ' J is yours, this uight, to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature, and reviving sense ; To... | |
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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. 
