 | 1747 - 684 pages
...here by fortune plac'd, Muft watch the wild vicifiitudes of Tafte j With ev'ry meteor of caprice muft play, And chafe the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Cenfure term our fate our choice, The ftige but echoes back the publick voice. The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give ; For we that live... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1755 - 356 pages
...here by fortune plac'd, Muft watch the wild viciffitudcs of tafte ; With every meteor of caprice muft play, And chafe the new-blown bubbles of the day,...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,... | |
 | 1758 - 352 pages
...plac'd, Muft watch the wild viciffitudes of tafte ; With every meteor of caprice murt play, And chace the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not cenfure...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,... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 pages
...here by Fortune plac'd, Muft watch the wild viciffitudes of tafte ; With every meteor of caprice muft play, And chafe the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not cenfure term our fate our choice, The flage but echoes back the publick voice, The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 392 pages
...plac'd, Muft watch the wild viciffitudes of tafte ; With every meteor of caprice muft play, And chace the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not cenfure...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... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 356 pages
...every meteor of caprice muft play, And chace the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah! let not cenfu.?* term our fate our choice; The ftage but echoes back the public voice., The dram.a'9 laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe, to live. Then prompt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pages
...plac'd, Muft watch the wild Viciffitudes of Tafte, WitK every Meteor of Caprice muft play, And chace the new-blown Bubbles of the Day. Ah! let not Cenfure term our Fate, our Choice: The Stage but echoes back the public Voice, The Drama's Laws, the Drama's Patrons g|ve, For we that live... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pages
...plac'd, Muft watch the wild Viciffitudes of Tafte, With every Meteor of Caprice muft play, And chace the new-blown Bubbles of the Day. Ah! let not Cenfure 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 pages
...wild Vicifiitudes of Tafte, With every Meteor of Caprice muft play, And chace the new-blown Hubbies of the Day. Ah! let not Cenfure 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... | |
 | BOUQUET. - 1780 - 354 pages
...watch the wild viciffitudes of tafte ; With every meteor of caprice mult play, And chafe the new blown 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, Por we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe... | |
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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. 
