 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...Taste ; With every meteor of Caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. BO Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The Stage...give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...plac'd, Must watch the wild Vicissitudes of Taste; (1. 47—48) 9 The Stage but echoes back the publick ll." (1. 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... | |
 | Northrop Frye, David Cayley - 1992 - 244 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Elaine Hadley - 1995 - 326 pages
...traditional obligations to their spectators had been most famously described by Samuel Johnson in 1747: The Stage but echoes back the public voice, 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... | |
 | Sarah Stanton, Martin Banham - 1996 - 436 pages
...opening of Garrick's management of DRURY LANE in 1747, formulating his managerial policy in the couplet "The Drama's laws the Drama's patrons give,/ For we that live to please must please to live.' His only play, Irene, was produced by Garrick in 1749. A sterile tragedy, it survived for nine nights... | |
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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. 
