 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 239 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... | |
 | 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
...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 - 442 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... | |
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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. 
