 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 頁
...of taste j With every meteor of caprice must play, And chaae the new-blown bubbles of the day, Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage...please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry. As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Dr. Johnson. OF the origin of the drama among... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 406 頁
...caprice must play, And chase the new•blown bubbles of the d&y. Ah! let not censure term our fate nur choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice...please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Dr. Johnson, OF the first origin of the drama... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 386 頁
...of taste ; Wilh every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. AbJ let not censure term our fate our choice, • The stage but echoes back the public voice.;^ f The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, that live to please, must please to live. Then... | |
 | 1831 - 858 頁
...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 public's voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 頁
...of taste; With every meteor of caprice must play. And chase the ucw-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes bach the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, that live to please, must... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 372 頁
...; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let no: censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes...please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Dr. Johnson. OF the origin of the drama among... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 頁
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 頁
...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...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... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 頁
...written by Dr'. Johnson, and spoken by Garrick, at the opening of Drury-Lane Theatre, in 1747:— " Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage...For we that live to please, must please to live." A still more striking, nay, shocking evidence of theatrical compromise, the public will remember, took... | |
 | Samuel Gover Winchester - 1840 - 258 頁
...taste j 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...please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Here it seems to be conceded that the theatre... | |
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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. 
