 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...the day. Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; rs lire. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tie... | |
 | 1847 - 368 pages
...the day. Ah ! let no: censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes hack I he 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.... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 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 folltfes you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours,... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 154 pages
...the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back tlw 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 y«u decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; ^Tis yours... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1855 - 558 pages
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 | 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,... | |
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