| 1826 - 488 páginas
...attempt with complete success ; as the parties since they started, have not been heard of. THE DRAMA. The Drama's laws the Drama's patrons give, For those who live to please mast please to lire. Dr. Johnson. So varied are the operations on the mimic scene, that we have little... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 páginas
...theatrical composition must receive its principal bent and colouring from the taste of the audience : The Drama's laws, the Drama's patrons give ; For those who live to please, must please to live. But though this be an undeniable, and in, some respects a melancholy truth, it is not less certain,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 424 páginas
...theatrical composition must receive its principal bent and colouring from the taste of the audience : . " The Drama's laws, the Drama's patrons give ; For those who live to please, must please to live." JOHNSON'S Prologue, 1747. But though this be an undeniable, and in some respects a melancholy truth,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 402 páginas
...point of taste to the audience,, and illustrated, in its fullest extent, the maxim of the poet : — " The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For those who live to please, must please to live.'' Kemble, on the contrary, felt much more for the honour of his profession and the truth of the dramatic... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 584 páginas
...point of taste to the audience, and illustrated, in its fullest extent, the maxim of the poet : — " The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For those who live to please, must please to live." Kemble, on the contrary, felt much more for the honour of his profession and the truth of the dramatic... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1834 - 418 páginas
...theatrical composition must receive its principal bent and colouring from the taste of the audience : " The Drama's laws, the Drama's patrons give ; For those who live to please, must please to live." JOHNSON'S Prologue, 1747. But though this be an undeniable, and in some respects a melancholy truth,... | |
| Hugh McNeile - 1840 - 306 páginas
...understand, with regard to the lighter arts, the principle embodied in those lines of Dr. Johnson : — ' The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For those who live to please must please to live.' But sorry would he be to hear that ' The pulpit's laws the pulpit's patrons give, And those who live... | |
| 1840 - 752 páginas
...understand, with ' regard to the lighter arts, the principle embodied in those lines ' of Dr. Johnson : — ' The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For those who live to please must please to live.' ' But sorry would he be to hear that ' The pulpit's laws the pulpit's patrons give, And those who live... | |
| 1840 - 906 páginas
...understand, with ' regard to the lighter arts, the principle embodied in those lines ' of Dr. Johnson : — ' The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For those who live to please must please to live.' ' But sorry would he be to hear that ' The pulpit's laws the pulpit's patrons give, And those who live... | |
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