 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1843 - 852 pages
...Booth, the celebrated actor, was playing Cato, Lord Bolingbroke sent for him into his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well ' against a perpetual dictator:' glancing at the protracted sway of the Duke of Marlborough; or rather at his attempt to be made CaptainGeneral... | |
 | 1843 - 746 pages
...Booth, the celebrated actor, was playing Cato, Lord Bolingbroke sent for him into his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well ' against a perpetual dictator:' glancing at the protracted sway of the Duke of Marlborough; or rather at his attempt to be made CaptainGeneral... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1843 - 278 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...disturbed, the most severe and happy was Bolingbroke's. Between two acts, he sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theatre,...of liberty so well against a perpetual Dictator.* It was April; and in April, a hundred and thirty years ago, the London season was thought to be far... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 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. — Warton. Ver. 46. As Cato's self, $c.] This alludes to that famous story of his coming into the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 560 pages
...established his fame in the part of Cato. Bolingbroke made him a present of fifty guineas, as he said, " for defending the cause of liberty so well against a Perpetual Dictator " ; in which that versatile personage made it clear to the player, that there were actors, not trained... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 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 7. The Whigs are unwilling to be distanced this way, and therefore design a present to the same Cato... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - 696 pages
...should applaud it most, Bolingbroke called Booth into his box at the theatre, and gave him a purse with fifty guineas " for defending the cause of liberty so well against a PERPETUAL DICTATOR." Although the Whig party had so much fallen in reputation, partly from their rejection of the overtures... | |
 | William Bourne Oliver Peabody - 1850 - 478 pages
...established his fame in the part of Cato. Bolingbroke made him a present of fifty guineas, as he said, " for defending the cause of liberty so well against a Perpetual Dictator ; " in which that versatile personage made it clear to the player, that there were actors, not trained... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 530 pages
...should applaud it most, Bolingbroke called Booth into his box at the theatre, and gave him a purse with fifty guineas " for defending the cause of liberty so well against a PERPETUAL DICTATOR." Although the Whig party had so much fallen in reputation, partly from the rejection of the overtures... | |
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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. 
