 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Knight - 1894 - 368 pages
...favour of Johnson. No prologue, at least, has supplied more familiar quotations, and the distich— The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live, may count among the most frequently misquoted lines in the language. The... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1895 - 390 pages
...time the poet says, truly enough, if a bit pompously : " 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," and in conclusion he calls upon the crowded and brilliant audience to... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...matron would to dance with girls. A. HORACE— Of the Art of Poetry. L. 272. Went worth Dillon's trans. Sc. 1. L. 97. VICTORY. The victory of endurance born. n. BRYAN please, must please to live. 1. SAM' I, JOHNSON — Prologue Spoken bit Mr. Qarrickon Oprning Itrnry... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 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... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1900 - 482 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1900 - 438 pages
...Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. And this : " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please, to live." 5 John Dyer's " Grongar Hill" was first published in 1726, his "Ruins... | |
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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. 
