...to satirize Marlborough, was in a box, and between the acts he sent for Booth and presented him with fifty guineas " for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." Cato was pronounced a success. It contains some of the noblest of Addison's thoughts, some of his best...

...presentation of a lofty patriotism in his rôle of Cato, and then presents him with a mighty purse of guineas "for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." As St. John says this last, he turns a stern eye on Marlborough, who is seeking to have himself declared...