 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.  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 608edited by - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Mathew Carey - African Americans - 1830 - 480 pages
...Johnson, in a prologue which he wrote for Garrick, places this idea in the strongest point of light. " Ah let not censure term our fate our choice : The...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 pages
...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— come— hope for the best.—... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 372 pages
...vicissitudes of taste j With every meteor of caprice must play, And chaae the new-blown bubbles of the day, Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The...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.... | |
 | Horace Smith - Games - 1831 - 406 pages
...caprice must play, 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...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,... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 386 pages
...of taste ; Wilh every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the 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... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pages
...vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, 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's voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 372 pages
...vicissitudes of taste; With every meteor of caprice must play. And chase the 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... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1836 - 372 pages
...; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let no: censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes...•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.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The...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 ; 'Tis yours,... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 pages
...written by Dr'. Johnson, and spoken by Garrick, at the opening of Drury-Lane Theatre, in 1747:— " Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The...For we that live to please, must please to live." A still more striking, nay, shocking evidence of theatrical compromise, the public will remember, took... | |
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