 | 1831 - 858 pàgines
...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 of the dependence of a... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1832 - 382 pàgines
...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...tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Dr. Johnson. Or the origin of the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have already spoken in our fourth chapter,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pàgines
...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...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pàgines
...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...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Gover Winchester - 1840 - 258 pàgines
...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...decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Here it seems to be conceded that the theatre does not, and never can exert a reforming influence over... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...new-blown bubble of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back $ ; 'Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving sense; To chase the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...new-blown bubble of the day. Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back . lire. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tie... | |
 | 1847 - 368 pàgines
...new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let no: censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes hack I he public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons...tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die." Dr. Johnson. Op the origin of the drama among the Greeks and Romans we have already spoken in our fourth chapter,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pàgines
...our futc our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws the drama's patron give. For we that live to please, must please to live....decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; 'Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving sense; To chase the... | |
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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. 
