...great demonstration of indignation against the peace, and by Bolingbrokc for presenting the actor Booth with a purse of fifty guineas for " defending the cause of liberty against a perpetual dictator " (Marlborough). In the terms granted to England there was perhaps little...

...great demonstration of indignation against the peace, and by Bolingbroke for presenting the actor Booth .with a purse of fifty guineas for "defending the cause of liberty against a perpetual dictator" (Marlborough). In the terms granted to England there was perhaps little...

...demonstration of indignation against the peace, and by Boîingbroke for presenting the actor Booth .with a purse of fifty guineas for " defending the cause of liberty against a perpetual dictator " (Marlborough). In the terms granted to England there was perhaps little...

...came when Bolingbroke, calling Barton Booth, who played the leading character, to his box, gave him fifty guineas " for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." It was easy to attack The Beggar's Opera on the score of its political bias, and no one was surprised...

...19-21. 3. Barton Booth, who played Cato, was at one performance summoned to Bolingbroke's box and given a purse of fifty guineas for "defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." The Whigs immediately countered this propaganda ploy with a similar gift to Booth and an equally effective...

...When Barton Booth [1713] first appeared as " Cato," Bolingbroke called him into his box and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. — Life of Addison. He is a Cato, a man of simple habits, CATO 209 CAVALIER severe morals, strict...

...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 Letter to SIR W. TRUMBULL. Cato ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope wrote...

...by sending between the acts for Booth, who represented Cato, and presenting him ostentatiously with fifty guineas, "for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual Dictator." The greater part of the play had been written long before, with little reference to English party cries,...

...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....

...Bolingbroke, as Pope told Caryll (30 April 1713), sent for Booth, the actor of Cato, and presented him with fifty guineas for ' defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator,' innuendo Marlborough ; and the whigs, says Pope, intend a similar present and are trying to invent...