 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 psl.
...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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Gover Winchester - 1840 - 258 psl.
...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...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." Here it seems... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - 1840 - 332 psl.
...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 to live.' " It remains for the lessee to add but one thing "... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 psl.
...must play, And chase the new-blown bubble of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, Chambers Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 psl.
...must play, And chase the new-blown bubble of the day. Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, ` . lire. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tie... | |
 | 1847 - 368 psl.
...new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let no: censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes hack I he public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons...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." Dr. Johnson.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 psl.
...must play, And chase the new-blown bubble of Hie 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 patron give. For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 psl.
...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...give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the folltfes you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours,... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 160 psl.
...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...patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to liv«. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; ^Tis... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 154 psl.
...new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back tlw 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 y«u decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; ^Tis yours... | |
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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. 
