 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 160 lehte
...wild vicissitudes of taste; With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our...patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to liv«. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; ^Tis... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 156 lehte
...of taste; "With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. All ! let not censure term our fate our choice. The stage...back the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrdns give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies yon... | |
 | Lawrence W. Levine - 1990 - 324 lehte
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 lehte
...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... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 lehte
...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... | |
 | Albert J. Rivero - 1989 - 198 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
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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. 
