 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 σελίδες
...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 follics you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 σελίδες
...the day. Ah I 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 follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 σελίδες
...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 follies you decry, At tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 σελίδες
...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 follies you 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 σελίδες
...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 live to please, must please — to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 482 σελίδες
...' Ah ! let not censure term our fate onr 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 FOLLIES you DECRY, " As tyrants doom their TOOLS... | |
 | 1812 - 318 σελίδες
...ussion. Ah ! let not censure terra 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. It was one of the primitive properties of poetry to impress more firmly... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 σελίδες
...the public 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 σελίδες
...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 live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you descry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1818 - 262 σελίδες
...publick 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 doom their tools of guilt to die; Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescu'd Nature, and reviving Sense ; To chace the... | |
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The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 
