 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 of guilt to die...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Seite 198von John Hawkins - 1787 - 605 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 Seiten
...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...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; * Hunt, a famous boxer on the ftage ; Mahomet, a ropedancer, who had exhibited at Co vent-Garden... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 Seiten
...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 of guilt to die ; 'Tis Yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 Seiten
...Mahomet, a ropedancer, who had exhibited at Convent-Garden Theatre the winter before, said to be a Turk. 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 Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...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 ; I ' J is yours, this uight, to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature, and reviving sense ; To... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 Seiten
...drama's patrons give. For we that live to 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 reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 Seiten
...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 ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence .Of rescued nature, and reviving sense ; To chase the... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 482 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1818 - 262 Seiten
...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, As 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 chace the charms... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 Seiten
...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 ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms... | |
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