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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. "
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 374
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 pages
...played Cato, into the box, and presented him with filty guineas in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." — POPK'S Letters to SIR W. TKUMBUU.. Cato ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope wrole...
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Roundabout Papers: To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 pages
...played Cato, into the box, and presented lu'm 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 SIB \V. TRCMBOLL. ovations, complimentary garlands from literary men, translations...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 1

Joseph Addison - 1883 - 596 pages
...disturbed, the most severe and happy was Bolingbroke's. Between two acts, ho sent for Booth to his box, and presented him. before the whole theatre, with a purse of fifty guineas, for defendmg the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. It was April ; and in April, a...
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Miscellaneous papers, lists of names &c., relating to the Dictionary of ...

Dictionary - 1883 - 626 pages
...Bolingbroke, as Pope told Caryll (April 30, 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 as...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 490 pages
...played Cato, into his 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." Bishop Berkeley was at the performance with Addison, " and two or three more friends in a side-box,...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 pages
...played Cato, into his 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." Bishop Berkeley was at the performance with Addison, " and two or three more friends in a side-box,...
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Roundabout Papers: (from the Cornhill Magazine) To which is Added The Second ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 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. TRUMHULL. "Cato" ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope...
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Golden friendships: sketches of the lives and characters of friends

F L. Clarke - 1884 - 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...
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Addison

William John Courthope - 1884 - 202 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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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review ..., Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 442 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,...attempt which Marlborough had made, not long before bis fall, to obtain a patent creating him Captain General for life. It was April ; and in April, a...
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