 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 страници
...day. BO 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. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 страници
...day. 50 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. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 страници
...the public voice; The drama's laws the drama's 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - 254 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 live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 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 live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
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The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 
