 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 386 pages
...day. AbJ let not censure term our fate our choice, • The stage but echoes back the public voice.;^ f The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we,...more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tool a of guilt to die.". Dr. Johnson. OF the origin of the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pages
...bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public's voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live. Were I to venture on a parody, I might convert Dr. Johnson's acknowledgment of the dependence of a... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...new-blown bubbles of 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...new-blown bubbles of 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...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... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 pages
...Drury-Lane Theatre, in 1747:— " 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...For we that live to please, must please to live." A still more striking, nay, shocking evidence of theatrical compromise, the public will remember, took... | |
 | Samuel Gover Winchester - Theater - 1840 - 258 pages
...new-blown bubbles of 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...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Here it seems to be conceded that the theatre does not, and never can exert a reforming influence over... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...new-blown bubble of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back $ bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving sense; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...new-blown bubble of the day. Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back . lire. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tie... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 368 pages
...new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let no: censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes hack I he public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...our futc our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws the drama's patron give. For we that live to please, must please to live....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... | |
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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. 
