 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...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. . Hunt, a famous boxer on the stage; Mahomet, a rope-dancer, who had exhibited... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 320 pages
...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 follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 366 pages
...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 follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1824 - 144 pages
...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 live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 426 pages
...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 live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 pages
...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 follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...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 lire. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Actors - 1830 - 348 pages
...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 follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...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 live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...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 live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
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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. 
