 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...looks so many fathoms to the sea, And hears it roar beneath. &t. Him. I. 4, DEAMA— DRAMATIC WRITERS. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Johnson, Prologue (On opening Drury Lain Th.). Some foree whole regions, in despite O' geography, to... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 404 pages
...— From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till declamation roar'd while passion slept ; and — The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Tu the course of the season Garrick revived Ben Jonson's " Every Man in his Humour," " Romeo and Juliet,"... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 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,... | |
 | 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 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 - 684 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
