...looks so many fathoms to the sea, And hears it roar beneath. 1285 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act 1. Sc. 4. DRAMA. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 1286 Dr. Johnson : Pro. On Opening Drury Lane Theatre. Some force whole...

...reformed basis, there occurs this sentiment : '* Ah t 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." Dumas, who wrote Camillc, said : " You do not take your daughter to see...

...And chase the new-blown hubbies of the day. 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. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools...

...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...

...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,...

...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'...

...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...

...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...

...plac'd, Must watch the wild Vicissitudes of Taste; (1. 47—48) 9 The Stage but echoes back the publick Voice. The Drama's Laws the Drama's Patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. (1. 52-54) EBEV; NAEL-1; NOEC; NoP A Short Song of Congratulation 10 Long-expected...

...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,...