 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...the publick 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 rescu'd Nature, and reviving Sense ; To chase the Charms of Sound, the Pomp of Show, For useful Mirth,... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1969 - 836 pages
...the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who 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 For useful mirth, and... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...audience to the stage allows him unthreatening incrimination and benevolent return to healthy origins: "Then prompt no more the Follies you decry, / As Tyrants doom their Tools of Guilt to die" (55-56). With correct prompting on a corrected stage, Drury Lane can recreate the genius portrayed... | |
 | 18?? - 128 pages
...publick 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 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... 
