 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1864 - 330 str.
...taste ; 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...voice, The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give ; For we that live to please, must please to live." He then proceeded to expatiate upon my merits, winding... | |
 | 1868 - 624 str.
...pnblic, and with justice, the responsibility, should these miscarry, by the well known lines,— ' The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For those, who live to please, must please to live.' The public, as usual, fell back after a time upon its love for ' inexplicable dumb show and noise,'... | |
 | 1869 - 654 str.
...the public, and with justice, the responsibility, should these miscarry, by the well-known lines, — drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For those, who live to please, must please to live.' The public, as usual, fell back after a time upon its love for 'inexplicable dumb show and noise,'... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 str.
...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...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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 str.
...the public, and with justice, the responsibility, should these miscarry, by the well-known lines,— "The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For those, who live to please, must please to live.'' The public, as usual, fell back after a time upon its love for "inexplicable dumb show and noise,"... | |
 | Theodore Martin - 1874 - 360 str.
...public, and with justice, the responsibility, should these miscarry, by the well-known lines, — " The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For those, who live to please, must please to live." The public, as usual, fell back after a time upon its love for " inexplicable dumb show and noise,"... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1877 - 192 str.
...house for fools and man. To show by one satiric touch No nation needed it so much ! THE STAGE. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage...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 thy... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 str.
...of taste ; With evVy 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...; 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 str.
...of taste ; With ev'ry 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...; 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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch - 1880 - 532 str.
...this both Macready and Forrest followed " the fashion of the times," accepting the declaration that The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For those who live to please must please to live. The acting of Forrest was natural, impulsive, FORREST VERSUS MACREADY. 295 and ardent, because he was... | |
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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. 
