 | 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
...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 tools... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 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 gives For we that live to please, must please to live. 1 SAMUEL JOHNSON. 253, Tis yours, this night,... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 404 pages
...— From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till declamation roar'd while passion slept ; and — The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Tu the course of the season Garrick revived Ben Jonson's " Every Man in... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 408 pages
...— From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till declamation roar'd while passion slept ; and — The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. lu the course of the season Garrick revived Ben Jonson's " Every Man in... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...looks so many fathoms to the sea, And hears it roar beneath. &t. Him. I. 4, DEAMA— DRAMATIC WRITERS. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Johnson, Prologue (On opening Drury Lain Th.). Some foree whole regions,... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1882 - 492 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 tools... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...And chase the new-blown 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... | |
 | Dutton Cook - 1883 - 308 pages
...present. The stage exisls 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 frive, For we that live to please must please to live. The general public have flocked to the performance... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
