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 Theatre - 109 psl.1888Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 psl.
...and gallery now listening to the call for renewal. Law givers must be just, wise, and responsible: Ah! let not Censure term our Fate our Choice, The Stage but echoes back the publick Voice. The Drama's Laws the Drama's Patrons give. For we that live to please, must... | |
| Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 404 psl.
...Garrick spoke when the great actor began his career as manager of Drury lane in 1747, Johnson wrote: Ah! let not Censure term our Fate our choice The Stage, but echoes back the publick Voice. The Drama's Laws the Drama's Patrons give For we that live to please, must... | |
| James Van Horn Melton - 2001 - 302 psl.
...theater season at Drury Lane, the renowned actor David Garrick affirmed the sovereignty of his public: 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... | |
| John Russell Brown - 2001 - 598 psl.
...management and the prologue to the season, written by Dr Johnson, set out the policy of the company. Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice. I he drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must... | |
| Thomas Keymer - 2006 - 296 psl.
...called "the wild vicissitudes of taste," the endless chase after "the new-blown bubbles of the day": Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the publick voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must... | |
| Bryan Waterman - 2007 - 354 psl.
...of Johnson's prologue, which anticipated the tension between Dunlap 's realism and Smith's idealism: Ah! let not Censure term our Fate our Choice, The Stage but echoes back the publick Voice. The Drama's Laws the Drama's Patrons give, For we that live to please, must... | |
| 18?? - 128 psl.
...vicissitudes of taste : 108 With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubble of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the publick voice ; The Drama's laws the Drama's patrons give, For we, that live to please, must... | |
| Sydney Castle Roberts - 1958 - 192 psl.
...life no one had a keener appreciation than Johnson, as the lines of his famous Prologue had shown: 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... | |
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