| Sir John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 634 pages
...before. ' Ah ! let not cenfure term our fate our choice, ' The ftage but echoes back the public voice ; 1 The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, , * For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. f Then prompt no more the follies you decry, ' As tyrants doom their tools... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...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, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1789 - 248 pages
...the day. Ah ! let not cenfure term our fate our choice, The ftage but echoes back the public voice ; The 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 tools... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 370 pages
...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, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry » As tyrants doom their tools... | |
| Great Britain - 1791 - 302 pages
...the day. Ah ! let not Cenfure term our fate our choice, The ftage but echoes back the public voice ; The 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 tools... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...publick voice ; The drama's laxvs, 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 tools of guilt to die ; * Hunt, a famous bnxer on the flage ; Mahomet, a ropedancer, who had exibited at Covent-Gaiden theatre... | |
| Addison (pseud.) - Anecdotes - 1795 - 616 pages
...the day. Ah ! let not cenfure term our fate our choice^ The ftage but echoes back the public voice ; The 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... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...dav. Ah ! let not ctnfure term our fate our choice, Г he ft age but echoes back the public voice ; The Drama's laws the Drama's patrons give, For we that live to pícale, muft pícale to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
| James Thomas Kirkman - Theater - 1799 - 510 pages
...the day. Ah ! let not cenfure term our fate our choice, The ftage but echoes back the public voice ; The 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 tools... | |
| Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 544 pages
...the public voice.. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry,...'Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of refcued nature, and reviving fenfe; To chafe the charms of found, the pomp of fhew, For ufeful mirth,... | |
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