 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...of chance) Here Hunt* may box, or Mahometf may dance. Hard is his lot that here by fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every...play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah 1 let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...Hard is his lot that, here by Fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With ev'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown...term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the publick voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With ev'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chace the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Censure...term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the publick voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...or Mahomet may dance. Hard is his lot that here by fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitndes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah I let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...head of all translators from that language. THE SfAGE. Hard i« his lot, who here by fortune plac'fi, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new blown bubbles of the day. PRELIMINARY. WHATEVER importance may generally hare been attached to... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - United States - 1809 - 428 pages
...translators from that language. THE STAGE. * * " "* * f Hard is his lot, who here by fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new blown bubbles of the day, PRELIMINARY. WHATEVER importance may generally have been attached to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...ride ; Perhaps, for who can guess th' effects of chance ? Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet * may dance. Hard is his lot that, here by fortune placed, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; * Hunt, a famous boxer on the stage ; Mahomet, a rope dancer, who had exhibited at Covent Garden... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...Hard is his lot that, here by Fortune placM, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste; With ev'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown...Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes hack the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...Hard is his lot that, here by Fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste; With cv'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Censure term oar fate our choice, The stage but echoes liack the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...wild vicissitudes of taste; Vfifti every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new born babble* of the 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 patrons give, For we that live to please, must please... | |
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Perhaps (for who can guess th' effects of chance ?) Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet may dance. Hard is his lot that, here by Fortune placed, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play. And chase the new-blown bubbles... 
