 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pagine
...wild vicissitudes of taste ; With ev'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the publick voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pagine
...winter before, said to be a Turk. Withev'ry meteor of caprice must play, 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... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pagine
...wild vicissitudes of taste; Vfifti every meteor of caprice must play, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pagine
...facctions low dramatist. I With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes hack the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 476 pagine
...wild vicissitudes oftaite; " With every meteor ofcapiice must piny, ' And 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... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 472 pagine
...vicissitudes of taste ; " With every meteor nf caprice must play, " And 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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagine
...watch the wild vicissitudes of taste j \Vith every meteor of caprice must play, And chase ihe new-born bubble of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage hut echoes back the public voice ; The Drama's laws the Drama's ptrons give, For we that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pagine
...wild vicissitudes of taste; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day — Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the publick voice; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1818 - 262 pagine
...wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chace the new blown hubbies of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, V The stage but echoes hack the publick voice ; > The d'ama's laws the drama's patrons give, I'm' we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pagine
...before, said to be a Turk. With ev'ry meteor of caprice must play, 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... | |
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Perhaps (for who can guess th' effects of chance ?) Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet may dance. Hard is his lot that, here by Fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles... 
