 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 страници
...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...please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follics you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; Tis yours, this night, to bid the... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 страници
...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...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 страници
...' 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...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... | |
 | 1812 - 318 страници
...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 and forcibly on the memory... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 страници
...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, must please to live....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 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1818 - 262 страници
...choice, V The stage but echoes hack the publick voice ; > The d'ama's laws the drama's patrons give, I'm' we that live to please, must please to live. Then...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... | |
 | 1819 - 708 страници
...tad, disagreeable things which might be said of him in his character of Manager), h'e set offwith, " Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature, and reviving sense; To chaee the charms of sound, the pomp of thaw, For useful mirth and salutary woe j Bid scenic virtue... | |
 | 1819 - 800 страници
...Russian Jrmy, V- " Tranitaled from the German. ,«" Illustrated bg I'latei. Longman •» ' Co. . Ti. yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature, and reviving ten*: To c-ln.'e the charms of found, the pomp of t.hi.V, llul itenic virtue form the rising age, And... | |
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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. 
