| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...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. The Whigs, says Pope, design a second present, when they can accompany it wi;h as good a sentence.... | |
| 1803 - 420 pages
...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. The play, supported thus' by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night, for a longer... | |
| 1803 - 434 pages
...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. The play, supported thus by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night, for a longer... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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. The Whigs, says Popr, design a second present; when they can accompany it with as good a sentence.... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...acts, and presented him with fifty guineas ; in acknowledgment, as he expressed it with great address, for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. approbation. But I have always thought, that those pompous Roman sentiments are not so difficult to... | |
| 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,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 pages
...satire was unR-.lt . The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth ta his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The Whigs, says Pope, design a second present^ when they can accompany it with as good a sentence.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...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. The whigs, says Pope, design a second present, when they can accompany it with as good a sentence.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...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. The whigs, says Pope, design a second present, when they can accompany it with as good a sentence.... | |
| 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... | |
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