 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pages
...played Cato, into the box, and presented him with fifty guineas in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." — POPE'S Letters to SIR W. TRUMRCLL. " Cato " ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 474 pages
...April 14th, 1713. 3 An adaptation by Ambrose Phillips, from a tragedy by Racine. Vid. infr. vol. iii. 4 This was a pungent allusion to the attempt which Marlborough...long before his fall, to obtain a patent creating him CaptainGeneral fur life. Macaulay's Essays, p. 712. 5 Pope to Trumbull, April 30th, 1713. and the author,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 142 pages
...Bolingbroke's. Between two acts, he sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theater, with a purse of fifty guineas for defending the cause...Dictator. This was a pungent allusion to the attempt which 3. The October. The Kit-Kat aud the October were the political clubs the two parties. Marlborough had... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 256 pages
...was 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 fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty 5 so well against a perpetual Dictator. This was a pungent allusion to the attempt which Marlborough... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 244 pages
...was 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 fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty G so well against a perpetual Dictator. This was a pungent allusion to the attempt which Marlborough... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 152 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 - 1893 - 566 pages
...the play, liolingbroke presenting Booth, who performed Cato, with fifty guineas 'in acknowledgment for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.' Addison disclaimed all political design, and waived the profits of the performances of the tragedy... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...applauding the play, Bolingbroke presenting Booth, who performed Cato, with fifty guineas 'in acknowledgment for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.' Addison disclaimed all political design, and waived the profits of the performances of the tragedy... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1894 - 436 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'... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1894 - 300 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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Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. 
