 | William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...mu-t please to live. Then prompt no more the tollies you decay, As tyrauis f'otm their tools of i:uilt 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 Show, For useful Mirth,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 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 - 1825 - 728 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 anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...give, For we that live to please, must please — to lire. 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 - 1825 - 504 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, m and Robert Chambers rescued nature and reviving sense; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...patron 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...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, 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... 
