 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...bubbles of the day. Ah ! Jet 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 George Bohn - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...looks so many fathoms to the sea, And hears it roar beneath. 1285 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act 1. Sc. 4. DRAMA. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 1286 Dr. Johnson : Pro. On Opening Drury Lane Theatre. Some force whole... | |
 | Josiah Woodward Leeds - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 98
...this sentiment: '* 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." Dumas, who wrote Camille, said: " You do not take your daughter to see... | |
 | 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 686
...hubbies 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... | |
 | 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 124
...prologue, which was written by Mr. Samuel Johnson and which concluded with this address to the town : " Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of gnilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving sense... | |
 | 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...When " Chrononhotonthologos must die," And Arthur struts in mimic majesty. BYRON, Hints from Horace. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. DR. JOHNSON, Prologue on Opening Drury Lane Theatre. Boldly I dare say... | |
 | 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...sin, And foppish humor; hence the cause doth rise. Men are not won by th' ears, so well as eyes. IBID. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. DR. JOHNSON, Prologue on Opening Drury Lane Theatre. On the stage he was... | |
 | Joseph Knight - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 1224
...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... | |
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The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 
