 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | 1831 - 864 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 538 pages
...by his verses f] Jonson plays upon the word live, as his namesake Samuel did in the next century : " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live ;" which may have been stolen from Bacon's " Help me (dear Sovereign Lord... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 550 pages
...his verses /] Jon son plays upon the word live, as his namesake Samuel did in the next century : " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live ;" which may have been stolen from Bacon's " Help me (dear Sovereign Lord... | |
 | 1881 - 436 pages
...BBOUOHTON. Charmeur de Serpents, MB. JOHN D'AUEAN. ACT III.-GUILDHALL. YE SHOW OF YE LORDE MAYOR. " THE drama's laws, the drama's patrons give ; For we that live to please, must please to live," said Dr. Johnson through the mouth of Garrick in a certain prologue.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...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 Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 pages
...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... | |
 | 1880 - 918 pages
...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 plays... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...flame : Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ: Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. . . . The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live. "rologue on the Opening of Dnwy Lane Thentt:. Phillips, whose touch harmonious... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
