 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 Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 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 Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 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 Gover Winchester - Theater - 1840 - 258 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 doom their tools of guilt to die." Here it seems to be conceded that the theatre does not, and never can exert a reforming influence over... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to lire. d grant ] . ; 'Tie yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving sense ; To chase the... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 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 doom their tools of guilt to die." Dr. Johnson. Op the origin of the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have already spoken in our fourth... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...public voice; The drama's laws the drama's patron 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the folltfes you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to...'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... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 160 pages
...voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to liv«. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants...guilt to die ; ^Tis yours this night to bid the reign commenee Of rescued nature, and reviving sense; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 154 pages
...patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies y«u 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 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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