 | 1892 - 524 pages
...sin, And foppish humor; hence the cause doth rise. Men are not won by th' ears, so well as eyes. IBID. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. DR. JOHNSON, Prologue on Opening Drury Lane Theatre. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting,... | |
 | Ian Jack - 1984 - 212 pages
...romantic than they know. They should recall Samuel Johnson's pithy comment on the history of drama The Drama's Laws the Drama's Patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live3 — and reflect that the history of European music, painting and sculpture cannot be intelligently... | |
 | Lawrence W. Levine - 1990 - 324 pages
...when on the stage." Here was literal proof of the continued validity of Samuel Johnson's prologue: The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 'The public," an American critic agreed in 1805, "in the final resort, govern the stage." It was of... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...tragedies are finish'd by death, all comedies are ended by a marriage. Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer A first night . . . notoriously distracting... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 pages
...Johnson's words for the opening of the New Theatre in Drury Lane, 1747 by Garrick, may apply today The Drama's Laws the Drama's Patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live or in the blunter form that Garrick used in his own 'Occasional Prologue' for 8 Sept 1750; Sacred to... | |
 | Albert J. Rivero - 1989 - 198 pages
...with its audience. Gibber's pragmatic defense of his dramatic procedures — his version of Johnson's "The Drama's Laws the Drama's Patrons give,/ For we that live to please, must please to live"15 — is a shrewd one; it allows him to deplore the declining taste of the audience while catering... | |
 | Northrop Frye, David Cayley - 1992 - 244 pages
...the time? FRYE: In the eighteenth century there was a great deal of feeling that, as Samuel Johnson says, 'The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, / For we that live to please, must please to live."126 Well, that is true, but with other people, like Addison, for example, you get public taste... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Must watch the wild Vicissitudes of Taste; (1. 47—48) 9 The Stage but echoes back the publick Voice. . 96-98) 89 No! I am not Prince (1. 52-54) EBEV; NAEL-1; NOEC; NoP A Short Song of Congratulation 10 Long-expected one and twenty Ling'ring... | |
 | Robert Donald Spector - 1992 - 200 pages
...a propagandist, Murphy might well have followed his friend Johnson's famous advice to playwrights: The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.67 Like Smollett's Briton, Murphy's Auditor ultimately proved an unsuccessful propaganda vehicle,... | |
 | Simon Trussler - 2000 - 420 pages
...the first night of Garrick's management at Drury Lane that Samuel Johnson famously coined the dictum: The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, /For we that live to please, must please to live.' Ironically, Johnsons own single dramatic effort, the tragedy Irene (1749), was very clearly the work... | |
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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. 
