 | 1828 - 346 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...chase the new-blown bubble of the day. Ah ! let not седопге term our fate our choice, The stage d pleasure. On Scottish Music. — 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... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1830 - 480 páginas
...this idea in the strongest point of light. " 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 thote who live to please, must please to live." And therefore, if Romeo and Juliet, the Clandestine... | |
 | Samuel Foote - 1830 - 426 páginas
...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—... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 406 páginas
...And chase the new•blown bubbles of the d&y. Ah! let not censure term our fate nur 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... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 372 páginas
...ucw-blown bubbles of 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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1831 - 386 páginas
...day. AbJ let not censure term our fate our choice, • The stage but echoes back the 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 páginas
...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... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 páginas
...opening of Drury-Lane Theatre, in 1747:— " 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." A still more striking, nay, shocking evidence of theatrical compromise,... | |
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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. 
