=Drama.=

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to live.
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DR. JOHNSON: _Pro. On Opening Drury Lane Theatre._


=Dreams.=

I talk of dreams
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy;
Which is as thin of substance as the air;
And more inconstant than the wind.
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SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

Dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
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BYRON: _Dream,_ St. 1.

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams,
Unnatural and full of contradictions;
Yet others of our most romantic schemes
Are something more than fictions.
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