 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...the day. Ah ! Jet 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,... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1882 - 486 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 yon decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; JTis yours... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...looks so many fathoms to the sea, And hears it roar beneath. 1285 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act 1. Sc. 4. DRAMA. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 1286 Dr. Johnson : Pro. On Opening Drury Lane Theatre. Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1883 - 490 pages
...said : — "Ah, let not Censure term our fate our choice: The stage but echoes buck the public voice; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give ; For we that live to please mnst please to live.'* 1 In the absence of the law people please too often by inhumanity, but with... | |
 | Josiah Woodward Leeds - 1884 - 96 pages
...sentiment : '* Ah t 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." Dumas, who wrote Camillc, said : " You do not take your daughter to see my play. You are right. Let... | |
 | 1885 - 686 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,... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 1888 - 438 pages
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 | 1892 - 520 pages
...When " Chrononhotonthologos must die," And Arthur struts in mimic majesty. BYRON, Hints from Horace. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. DR. JOHNSON, Prologue on Opening Drury Lane Theatre. Boldly I dare say There has been more by us in... | |
 | 1892 - 524 pages
...sin, And foppish humor; hence the cause doth rise. Men are not won by th' ears, so well as eyes. IBID. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. DR. JOHNSON, Prologue on Opening Drury Lane Theatre. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting,... | |
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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. 
