| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 Seiten
...a facetious low dramatist. With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 Seiten
...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 live to please, must... | |
| David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 472 Seiten
...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...LIvE. " Then PROMPT no more the FOLLIES you DECRY, " As tyrants doom their TOOLS OF GUILT to die." The months of May and June 1 808 were destined to deprive... | |
| David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 482 Seiten
...caprice must play, ' And chase the uew-blown RUBRLES of the day. ' Ah ! let not censure term our fate onr choice ; ' The stage but echoes back the public voice...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... | |
| 1812 - 318 Seiten
...frequently quoted, when dramatic matters are the subject of dis« ussion. Ah ! let not censure terra our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the...give, for we that live to please must please to live. It was one of the primitive properties of poetry to impress more firmly and forcibly on the memory... | |
| David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 476 Seiten
...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 we, that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 Seiten
...Mahomet, a ropedancer, who had exhibited at Covent-Garden Theatre the winter before, said to be a Turk. The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 Seiten
...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 live to please, must please... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...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 live to please,... | |
| Thomas Davies - 1818 - 262 Seiten
...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... | |
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