 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 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,... | |
 | 1831 - 864 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 550 pages
...his verses /] Jon son 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... | |
 | 1881 - 436 pages
...BBOUOHTON. Charmeur de Serpents, MB. JOHN D'AUEAN. ACT III.-GUILDHALL. YE SHOW OF YE LORDE MAYOR. " THE drama's laws, the drama's patrons give ; For we that live to please, must please to live," said Dr. Johnson through the mouth of Garrick in a certain prologue. This Gaiety burlesque was played... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...flame : Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ: Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. . . . The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live. "rologue on the Opening of Dnwy Lane Thentt:. Phillips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 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,... | |
 | 1880 - 784 pages
...the Jublic. As Johnson wrote in his famous prologue : 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. Hie general public have flocked to the performance of Shakespeare's ?lays when some great actor, or... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 408 pages
...— From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till declamation roar'd while passion slept ; and — The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. lu the course of the season Garrick revived Ben Jonson's " Every Man in his Humour," " Romeo and Juliet,"... | |
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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. 
