 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 538 sivua
...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 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 534 sivua
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 | 1881 - 436 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 - 636 sivua
...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 - 642 sivua
...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... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sivua
...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 sivua
...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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 sivua
...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,... | |
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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. 
