 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending...design a second present, when they can accompany it wi;h as good a sentence. The play, supported thus by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night... | |
 | 1803 - 434 pages
...clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending...liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The play, supported thus by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night, for a longer... | |
 | 1803 - 420 pages
...clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending...liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The play, supported thus' by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night, for a longer... | |
 | 1843 - 586 pages
...two acts, he sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theatre, with a purse of fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual Dictator.* 1 The long sway of the Duke of Marlborough,' says Miss Aikiu, It was April; and in April, a hundred... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt. The story of "Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending...well against a perpetual dictator. The Whigs, says Popr, design a second present; when they can accompany it with as good a sentence. . . < The play,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...mentioned as a satire on the Tories, and the Tories echoed every clap to shew that the satire was unfelt. The play, supported thus by the emulation of factious...was acted night after night for a longer time than it is thought the public had allowed to any drama before; and the Author, as Mrs. Porter related, wandered... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 568 pages
...between one of the acts, and preiented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledgment, (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against „ a perpetual dictator. The whigs are unwilling to be distanced this way, and therefore design a present to the same Cato, very speedily;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 pages
...clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending...when they can accompany it with as good a sentence. # Spcnce. The The play, supported thus by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 362 pages
...between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas ; in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The Whigs are unwilling to be distanced this way, and therefore design a present to the same Cato very speedily... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pages
...between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas : in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The whigs are unwilling to be distanced this way, and therefore design a present to the same Cato very speedily;... | |
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Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. 
