 | 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... | |
 | Neil Thomas - 1989 - 192 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 1990 - 216 pages
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 | Tracy C. Davis - 1991 - 200 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Anthony Burgess - 1992 - 368 pages
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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. 
