 | 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 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, 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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 plays... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 638 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 638 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... | |
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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. 
