 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 160 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pages
...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 of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...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 of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours,... | |
 | 1915 - 980 pages
...Doctor's most 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 pages
...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... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - 254 pages
...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 of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1864 - 330 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
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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. 
