 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 страници
...the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes bach the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we,...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die.'* Dr. Johnson. OF the origin o£ the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have already spoken in our... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 страници
...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,...decry. As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Dr. Johnson. OF the origin of the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have already spoken in our fourth... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 386 страници
...day. AbJ let not censure term our fate our choice, • The stage but echoes back the public voice.;^ f The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we,...more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tool a of guilt to die.". Dr. Johnson. OF the origin of the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have... | |
 | 1831 - 858 страници
...day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public's voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live. Were I to venture on a parody, I might convert Dr. Johnson's acknowledgment of the dependence of a... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 страници
...1747:— " 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 to live." A still more striking, nay, shocking evidence of theatrical compromise, the public will remember, took... | |
 | Samuel Gover Winchester - 1840 - 258 страници
...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...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Here it seems to be conceded that the theatre does not, and never can exert a reforming influence over... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 страници
...the day. Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; rs lire. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tie... | |
 | 1847 - 368 страници
...the day. Ah ! let no: censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes hack I he public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we,...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Dr. Johnson. Op the origin of the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have already spoken in our fourth... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 страници
...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...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... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 154 страници
...the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back tlw public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we...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... | |
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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 to live. 
