 | Samuel Foote - 1830 - 426 pages
...our trade takes the lead. Foote. Well— well— we'll feel a little for the taste of the town ; and, if no other method can be found of paying your bill...For we that live to please, must please to live." Scaff. What then, after all, I find I am in a hobble. Foote. May be not— come— hope for the best.—... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...day. Ah ! let not седопге term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; From t" and are never intrusive. All bear evidence of a kind and gentle heart, and a true Then prompt no more the follies yon ф'сгу, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; 'Tie yours... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 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." Dr. Johnson.... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 pages
...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, 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.'* Dr. Johnson.... | |
 | 1831 - 858 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... | |
 | 1871 - 344 pages
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 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 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,... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 690 pages
...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 Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 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,... | |
 | Samuel Gover Winchester - 1840 - 258 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." Here it seems... | |
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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. 
