 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...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 of Sound, the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...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 of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, At 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 chase the charms of sound, the pomp of shew, For iist-fiil mirth,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 pages
...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 of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...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 hid the reign commence Of rescued nature, and reviving sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you descry, 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 change the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth... | |
 | Thomas Davies - Theater - 1818 - 262 pages
...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 of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...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 of Sound, the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 320 pages
...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 of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1824 - 144 pages
...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 of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth... | |
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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... 
