 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 422 pages
...here by Fortune plac'd, Muft watch the wild viciflitudes of tafte .^ With ev'ry 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...here by Fortune plac'd, Muft watch the wild viciflitudes of tafte ; With ev'ry 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...And chase the 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 give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you descry, As tyrants doom their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 pages
...here by Fortune plac'd, Muft watch the wild viciflitudes of tafte ; With ev'ry 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... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...And chase the 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 give, For we that live to please, must please — to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...And chase the new blown bubbles of the day. 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. Then prompt no more the follics you decry, As tyrants doom their... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...And chase the new born babble* of the day. 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. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, At tyrants doom their... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 472 pages
...chase the new-blown RUBRLES of the day. " 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. " Then PROMPT no more the FOLLIES you DECRY, " As tyrants doom... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 476 pages
...chase the new-blown RURRLRS of the day. ' Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice ; ' The stsge but echoes back the public voice : ' The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give; ' For we, that LIVR to PLRASR, must PLRASR to LIVR. " Then PROMPT no more the FOLLIKS you DRCRY, " As tyrants doom... | |
 | 1812 - 318 pages
...matters are the subject of dis« ussion. Ah ! let not censure terra 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. It was one of the primitive properties of poetry to impress more... | |
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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. 
