 | Jean Benedetti - 2001 - 274 pages
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 | James Van Horn Melton - 2001 - 302 pages
...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 please to live. Samuel Johnson's epilogue to Oliver Goldsmith's "Good-Natured Man" (1768) compared the relationship... | |
 | John Russell Brown - 2001 - 598 pages
...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 please to live . . . 'Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving sense; To chase... | |
 | Pauline Beard - 1990 - 378 pages
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 | Cheryl Wanko - 2003 - 286 pages
...patronage to a market-driven system. Johnson's famous rueful lines from his Drury Lane prologue (1747)— "The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, / For we that live to please must please to live" — acknowledge this dependence on public opinion, although such reminders were commonplace in prologues... | |
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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. 
