 | James Boswell - 1901 - 540 pagina’s
...bounded reign, And panting Time toiled after him in vain," — also includes the still-quoted couplet, " The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live." Boswell, however, makes but scanty references to the theatre ; and his... | |
 | Ian Jack - 1984 - 214 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Lawrence W. Levine - 1990 - 324 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 pagina’s
...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'... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Albert J. Rivero - 1989 - 198 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...lot, that here by Fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild Vicissitudes of Taste; (1. 47—48) 9 The Stage at all. That is not it, at all." (1. 96-98) 89 No! I am not Prince please, must please to live. (1. 52-54) EBEV; NAEL-1; NOEC; NoP A Short Song of Congratulation 10 Long-expected... | |
 | Northrop Frye, David Cayley - 1992 - 244 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Simon Trussler - 2000 - 420 pagina’s
...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),... | |
 | Elaine Hadley - 1995 - 326 pagina’s
...spectators had 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... | |
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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. 
