 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 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...please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the folltfes you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 154 pages
...new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back tlw public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons...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... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 160 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 give, For we that live to please, must please to liv«. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; ^Tis... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 156 pages
...fate our choice. The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrdns give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies yon decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to (lie ; irTis yours this night to bid the reign commence... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...the loss scrupulous portion of society ; and since, as Johnson himself so happily expresses it — "The drama's laws the drama's patrons give; For we that live to please, mutt pítate to lin" — the manners of the drama must be adapted to their tastes ; and as whatever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...new-blown bubbles of the day. 50 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 Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...new-blown bubbles of the day. BO 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... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1855 - 1080 pages
...mind when he wrote the lines in his Prologue at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, in 1747 ? — " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live." Query, where is Lord Bacon's letter to be found in extenso f BALLIOLESSIS. [The passage occurs in Lord... | |
 | American essays - 1915 - 980 pages
...famous lines: criticisms of the stage, as true to-day as when they were uttered; as where he says, — "The Drama's laws, the Drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.' It has also the line in which, speaking of Shakespeare, he says, 'And panting Time toil'd after him... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...our fate 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. 
