 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 154 pages
...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 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... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 160 pages
...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 yours this night to bid the reign commenee Of rescued nature, and reviving sense; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 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 Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 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... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1863 - 254 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 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... | |
 | James Monroe Buckley - Theater - 1875 - 172 pages
...and it closed with the following earnest appeal : — " 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 Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 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 Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 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... | |
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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... 
