 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. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night,...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 1391819Full view - About this book
 | Percy Fitzgerald - Theater - 1882 - 484 pages
...please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their 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 of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe ; Bid scenic Virtue... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - Theater - 1882 - 486 pages
...live. Then prompt no more the follies yon decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; JTis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense j To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe ; Bid scenic Virtue... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their 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 of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe; Bid scenic Virtue form... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...die; Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence (if rescued Nature and reviving Sense; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe; Uid scenic Virtue form the rising age, And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. PROLOGUE TO THE... | |
 | Actors - 1887 - 124 pages
...the town : " Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of gnilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence...To chace the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For usefnl mirth and salutary woe ; Bid scenic virtue form the rising age, And truth diffuse her radiance... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1904 - 376 pages
...closes — " Then prompt no more the follies you ducry, As Tyrants doom their 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 of Show, For useful Mirth and salutary Woe : Bid scenic Virtue... | |
 | Edward Robins - Actors - 1895 - 390 pages
...and brilliant audience to "... bid the reign commence Of rescu'd Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful...salutary woe, Bid scenic virtue form the rising age, Aud truth diffuse her radiance from the stage." There was one joyous woman there that happy night,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Na'ure and reviving Sense ; To chase the cnarms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe ; Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, Anc Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. PROLOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF A WORD TO THE Wist This night... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1897 - 374 pages
...— " Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As Tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die : "Pis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense : To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth and salutary Woe : Bid scenic Virtue... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - English poetry - 1898 - 394 pages
...please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their 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 of Show, For useful Mirth and salutary Woe ; Bid scenic Virtue... | |
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