 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
