 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pagine
...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,...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... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 pagine
...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...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; * Hunt, a famous boxer on the stage. i Mahomet, a rope dancer, who bad exhibited at Cerent Garden... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pagine
...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...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tie yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense; [Shnw To... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1830 - 348 pagine
...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...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; * Hunt, a famous boxer on the stage, t Mahomet, a rope dancer, who had exhibited at Covent Garden... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pagine
...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 lire. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; Tis... | |
 | 1828 - 346 pagine
...and oaths bring up the rear/* what have the softer sex to do, but to suit the action to ihc word t " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give ; For we, that live to please, must please to live." To be decent is well enough, to be " hey randy dandy O!" is better, to be popular is best of all !... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagine
...bubble of the day. Ah ! let not седопге term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back cottish Music. — From t" and are never intrusive....heart, and a true poetical fancy. Orongar Hffl. S yon ф'сгу, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; 'Tie yours this night to bid the reign... | |
 | Samuel Foote - 1830 - 426 pagine
...rainbow — all its gaudy colours arise from reflection, or, as a modern bard more happily says : — " The Drama's laws — the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live." Scaff. What then, after all, I find I am in a hobble. Foote. May be not— come— hope for the best.—... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 pagine
...ucw-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes bach the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die.'* Dr. Johnson. OF the origin o£ the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have already spoken in our... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 pagine
...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...decry. As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Dr. Johnson. OF the origin of the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have already spoken in our fourth... | |
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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. 
