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... The Life of David Garrick - Σελίδα 89των Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 507 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 σελίδες
...give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, At 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 chase the charms of sound, the pomp of shew, For iist-fiil mirth,... | |
| 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,...'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 - 1811 - 202 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,...tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to hid the reign commence Of rescued nature, and reviving sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp... | |
| David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 482 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." The months of May and June 1808 were destined to deprive the lovers of good acting of two very deserving... | |
| 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
...give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you descry, 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 change the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth... | |
| 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,...Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescu'd Nature, and reviving Sense ; To chace the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 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,...'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... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 σελίδες
...rope-dancer, who had exhibited at CoventGarden theatre the winter before, said to be a Turk. Thi'ii prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; T is yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense; To chase the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 320 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,...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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