 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...  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 293by Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 pages
...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...'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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...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...tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to hid the reign commence Of rescued nature, and reviving sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 472 pages
...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." The months of May and June 1 808 were destined to deprive the lovers of good acting of two very deserving... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...give, For we that live to please, must 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 Of rescued nature, and reviving sense; To change the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...voice ; The Drama's laws the Drama's ptrons 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 ; "Fis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature, and reviving sense; [show. To... | |
 | Thomas Davies - Theater - 1818 - 262 pages
...voice ; > The d'ama's laws the drama's patrons give, I'm' we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants...Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescu'd Nature, and reviving Sense ; To chace the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...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...'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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...rope-dancer, who had exhibited at CoventGarden theatre the winter before, said to be a Turk. Thi'ii prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; T is yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense; To chase the... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 292 pages
...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...'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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1824 - 144 pages
...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...'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... | |
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