| Richard Ryan - 1830 - 348 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 ; * Hunt, a... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 464 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 lire. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; Tis... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...was long : Till shame regain'd the post that sense betray'd, And virtue call'd oblivion to her aid. From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till declamation roar'd, while passion slept ; Yet still did virtue deign the stage to tread, Philosophy remain'd, though nature fled. But forced,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...was long : Till shame regain'd the post that sense betray'd, And virtue call'd oblivion to her aid. From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till declamation roar'd, while passion slept ; Yet still did virtue deign the stage to tread, Philosophy remain'd, though nature fled. But forced,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...was long : Till shame regain'd the post that sense betray'd, And virtue call'd oblivion to her aid. From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till declamation roar'd, while passion slept ; Yet still did virtue deign the stage to tread, Philosophy remain'd, though nature fled. But forced,... | |
| 1828 - 346 pages
...and oaths bring up the rear/* what have the softer sex to do, but to suit the action to ihc word t " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give ; For we, that live to please, must please to live." To be decent is well enough, to be " hey randy dandy O!" is better, to be popular is best of all !... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...day. Ah ! let not седопге term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; From t" and are never intrusive. All bear evidence of a kind and gentle heart, and a true Then prompt no more the follies yon ф'сгу, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; 'Tie yours... | |
| Samuel Foote - 1830 - 426 pages
...rainbow — all its gaudy colours arise from reflection, or, as a modern bard more happily says : — " The Drama's laws — the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live." Scaff. What then, after all, I find I am in a hobble. Foote. May be not— come— hope for the best.—... | |
| Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 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." Dr. Johnson.... | |
| 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.... | |
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