 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.  The Theatre - 109 psl.1888Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 psl.
...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 public voice; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1830 - 480 psl.
...Johnson, in a prologue which he wrote for Garrick, places this idea in the strongest point of light. " 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 thote who live to please, must... | |
 | 1831 - 858 psl.
...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 public's voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 psl.
...vicissitudes 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 - 1831 - 372 psl.
...vicissitudes 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 but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, that live to please, must... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 386 psl.
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 psl.
...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 public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 psl.
...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 public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 psl.
...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 but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - 1840 - 328 psl.
...or illegitimate performances of the " stage under the management of that eminent tra" gedian : " ' 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, And we who live to please must please... | |
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