 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 σελίδες
...of.the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the publick 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 σελίδες
...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 lire. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | 1828 - 346 σελίδες
...and oaths bring up the rear/* what have the softer sex to do, but to suit the action to ihc word t " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give ; For we, that live to please, must please to live." To be decent is well enough, to be " hey randy dandy O!" is better, to... | |
 | Samuel Foote - 1830 - 426 σελίδες
...rainbow — all its gaudy colours arise from reflection, or, as a modern bard more happily says : — " The Drama's laws — the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live." Scaff. What then, after all, I find I am in a hobble. Foote. May be not—... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 σελίδες
...day. Ah ! let not седопге term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; From t" and are never intrusive. All bear evidence of a kind please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies yon ф'сгу, As tyrants doom their tools... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 406 σελίδες
...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 of guilt to die." Dr. Johnson, OF the first origin of the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have already spoken in... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 386 σελίδες
...public voice.;^ f 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 tool a of guilt to die.". Dr. Johnson. OF the origin of the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 σελίδες
...the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes bach 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 - 858 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 σελίδες
...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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The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 
