 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...chase the 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 give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pages
...chase the 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 give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 870 pages
...'THE BOX OFFICE: BY HIS HONOUR JUDGE PARRY. 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. SAMUEL JOHNSOS. 1 HAVE a vague notion that I wrote this paper on... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - 254 pages
...And chase the 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 live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1864 - 330 pages
...And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah, let no 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." He then proceeded to expatiate upon my merits, winding up a somewhat... | |
 | 1871 - 910 pages
...we constantly recur to the well-known and sensible lines in Dr. Johnson's Prologue : — " The stage but echoes back the public voice : — The Drama's laws, the Drama's patrons give ; And ' they ' that live to please, must please to live." The next play I would introduce to notice... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...And chase the 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 live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1877 - 192 pages
...touch No nation needed it so much ! THE STAGE. 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 those, that live to please, must please to live. Dr. Johnson. ON A BUINED SPENDTHRIFT. His whole estate... | |
 | 1880 - 918 pages
...present. The stage exists but to gratify the public. As Johnson wrote in his famous prologue : 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. The general public have flocked to the performance of Shakespeare's... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...And chase the 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 live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their... | |
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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. 
