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" 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... "
Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq: Principally Compiled from His ... - Page 309
by James Thomas Kirkman - 1799
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to lire. d grant ] . ; 'Tie yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving sense ; To chase the...
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The Family Library (Harper)., Volume 26

1847 - 368 pages
...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. Op the origin of the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have already spoken in our fourth...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patron give. For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry,...'Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving sense : To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...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...'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense, To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth...
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Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of Logic

George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 160 pages
...voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to liv«. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants...guilt to die ; ^Tis yours this night to bid the reign commenee Of rescued nature, and reviving sense; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For...
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Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of Logic

George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 154 pages
...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 this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature, and reviving sense; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth...
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The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...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,...'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature, and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth...
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The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pages
...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,...'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature, and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...the public voice; The drama's laws the drama's patron give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry,...'Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth...
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Public Speaking and Debate: With an Essay on Sacred Eloquence by Henry ...

George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - 254 pages
...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,...'Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence .Of rescued nature and reviving sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth...
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