 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 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 Theatre,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 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, fyc.] This alludes to that famous story of his coming into the Theatre,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 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."* This piece, which was represented for thirty-five successive nights, and was also performed at Oxford and... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 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."* This piece, which was represented for thirty-five successive nights, and was also performed at Oxford and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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.... | |
 | 1826 - 372 pages
...ever cheer, to shew that the satire was not felt. Bolingbroke called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas, for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The play thus supported by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night for a longer... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 288 pages
...was unfelt. Bolingbroke called Booth, who played the part of Cato, to his box, and presented him with fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." Thus supported by the emulation of parties, the play was acted night after night for a longer time... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...of Bolingbroke (tlie leader of the Tories) is well known. He called Booth into his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator (the Duke of Marlborough, the leader of the Whigs). The Whigs, says Pope, design a second present when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...satire was unt'elt. 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."... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 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... | |
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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. 
