 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, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night,...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 1391819Full view - About this book
 | Henry Brodribb Irving - Theater - 1907 - 242 pages
...confine the public appetite to the plain fare of tragedy and comedy, unable to persuade them To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe. It was in a magnificent attempt to outdo the spectacular triumphs of John Rich at Covent Garden, called... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...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 and salutary woe; Bid scenic virtue form... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, 55 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 and salutary Woe; 60 Bid scenic Virtue... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...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 and salutary Woe; 60 Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. PREFATORY... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 140 pages
...please, to live. Then prompt no more the follies to 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, and salutary Wo; Bid scenic Virtue form... | |
 | William Winter - Actors - 1915 - 602 pages
...to want, something which it ought not to have. The moral sage who wrote that couplet wrote also: " '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 and salutary woe, Bid scenic virtue form... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...comedies and songs. • H uni was n famous boxer on I he stage. <• Afahomfl, a famous rope-dancer. of annoyance Never came near thee; Thou loyest — but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. 80 Wak chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth and salutary Woe; 60 Bid scenic Virtue... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...and songs. 4 Hunt was a famous boxer on the -stage. * Mahomet, a, famous rope-dancer. • J S70 'Tie 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 and salutary Woe; 60 Hid scenic Virtue... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Authors, English - 1918 - 186 pages
...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 and salutary Woe ; Bid scenic Virtue... | |
 | Thomas Davies - Theater - 1969 - 836 pages
...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 For useful mirth, and salutary woe ; Bid scenic virtue form... | |
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