 | 1747 - 684 pagina’s
...bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Cenfure term our fate our choice, The ftige but echoes back the publick voice. The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give ; For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no mere the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1755 - 356 pagina’s
...bubbles of the day, Ah ! let not cenfure term our fate our choice, The ftage but echoes back the publick voice, The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe, to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 pagina’s
...bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not cenfure term our fate our choice, The flage but echoes back the publick voice, The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe, to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | 1758 - 352 pagina’s
...bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not cenfure term our fate our choice ; The ftage but echoes back the publick voice, The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe, to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry,' As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Benjamin Victor - 1761 - 288 pagina’s
...new.blown Bubbles of the Day. Ah ! let not Cenfure term^ur Fate our Choice, The Stage but ecchoes b«K the public Voice, The Drama's Laws the Drama's Patrons give, For we that live to pleafe, rnuft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the-Foilies you decry, As Tyrants doom their Tools... | |
 | 1765 - 396 pagina’s
...And chace the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah! let not cenfure term our fate our choice ; The ftage but echoes back the public voice, The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe, to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 pagina’s
...every Meteor of Caprice muft play, And chace the new-blown Hubbies of the Day. Ah! let not Cenfure term our Fate, our Choice: The Stage but echoes back...Laws, the Drama's Patrons give, For we that live to pleafc, muft pleafc to live. Then 3 Then prompt no more the Follies you decry, As Tyrants doom their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pagina’s
...every Meteor of Caprice muft play, And chace the new-blown Bubbles of the Day. Ah! let not Cenfure term our Fate, our Choice: The Stage but echoes back...public Voice, The Drama's Laws, the Drama's Patrons g|ve, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the Follies you decry, As... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1780 - 372 pagina’s
...echoes back the public voice; * A famous rope-dancer and prajjlifer of legerdemain • Picks. : ' TJJF J The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their toois... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1781 - 556 pagina’s
...ecchoes back the public voice ; * A famous rope dancer and praftifer of legerdemain tricks. / 1 3 The The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to pleafe, muft pleafe to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry., As tyrants doom their tools... | |
| |
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. 
