 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.  A Collection of Poems ... - Seite 191herausgegeben von - 1758Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Knight - 1894 - 368 Seiten
...favour of Johnson. No prologue, at least, has supplied more familiar quotations, and the distich— The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live, may count among the most frequently misquoted lines in the language. The... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1895 - 390 Seiten
...his own time the poet says, truly enough, if a bit pompously : " 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," and in conclusion he calls upon the crowded and brilliant audience to... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...matron would to dance with girls. A. HORACE— Of the Art of Poetry. L. 272. Went worth Dillon's trans. Sc. 1. L. 97. VICTORY. The victory of endurance born. n. BRYAN please, must please to live. 1. SAM' I, JOHNSON — Prologue Spoken bit Mr. Qarrickon Oprning Itrnry... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 Seiten
...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 live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 378 Seiten
...once said : — "Ah, let not Censure term our fate our choice: The stage but echoes bock the public voice; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give ; For we that live to please must please to live." * In the absence of the law people please too often by inhumanity, but... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1900 - 482 Seiten
...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 live! Then, prompt no more the follies you decry; As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1900 - 438 Seiten
...Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. And this : " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please, to live." 5 John Dyer's " Grongar Hill" was first published in 1726, his "Ruins... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 Seiten
...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 lirfc Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1901 - 350 Seiten
...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 live! Then, prompt no more the follies you decry; As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 Seiten
...bubbles of the day. Air! let not censure term our fate our choice : The stage but echoes back the public enry Troth" Henr please, must ple;ise — to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their... | |
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