 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 156 страници
...fate our choice. The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrdns give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies yon decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to (lie ; irTis yours this night to bid the reign commence... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 160 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 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 страници
...the loss scrupulous portion of society ; and since, as Johnson himself so happily expresses it — "The drama's laws the drama's patrons give; For we that live to please, mutt pítate to lin" — the manners of the drama must be adapted to their tastes ; and as whatever... | |
 | 1855 - 1080 страници
...mind when he wrote the lines in his Prologue at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, in 1747 ? — " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live." Query, where is Lord Bacon's letter to be found in extenso f BALLIOLESSIS. [The passage occurs in Lord... | |
 | 1915 - 980 страници
...famous lines: criticisms of the stage, as true to-day as when they were uttered; as where he says, — "The Drama's laws, the Drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.' It has also the line in which, speaking of Shakespeare, he says, 'And panting Time toil'd after him... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 870 страници
...PARRY. 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. SAMUEL JOHNSOS. 1 HAVE a vague notion that I wrote this paper on the Box Offioc in some former existence... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1864 - 330 страници
...of the day. Ah, let no 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." He then proceeded to expatiate upon my merits, winding up a somewhat lengthy and evidently prepared... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 страници
...looks so many fathoms to the sea, And hears it roar beneath. Sh. Ham. I. 4. DBAMA— DBAMATIC WBITEBS. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Johnson, Prologue (On opening Drury Lane I'1t.). Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography,... | |
 | 1831 - 864 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 538 страници
...by his verses f] Jonson plays upon the word live, as his namesake Samuel did in the next century : " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live ;" which may have been stolen from Bacon's " Help me (dear Sovereign Lord and Master) and pity me so... | |
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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. 
