 | 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... | |
 | Marc Baer - 1992 - 332 pages
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 | Bernard Shaw - 1993 - 400 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Rona Laurie - 1994 - 184 pages
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 | Peter Csobádi - 1994 - 522 pages
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 | Elaine Hadley - 1995 - 326 pages
...been most famously described by Samuel Johnson in 1747: 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.2 The chiasmatic balance of Johnson's phrasing and the rhyming ease of the lines suggest that... | |
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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. 
