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" Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. "
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 374
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860
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Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and ...

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...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 pages
...between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledgement, 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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 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....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 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....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 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....
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...uneasiness and solicitude during the representation. Bolingbroke called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well, against a perpetual dictator. Ver. 46. Ať Cato's self, 4'c.] This alludes to that famous story of his coming into the Theatre, and...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...uneasiness and solicitude during the representation. Bolingbroke called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well, against a perpetual dictator. Ver. 46. As Cato's self, fyc.] This alludes to that famous story of his coming into the Theatre, and...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 304 pages
...satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to hfe box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of Liberty so well against a 9 Spence. perpetual dictator. " The Whigs," says Pope, " design a second present, when they can accompany...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 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....
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 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....
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