 | 1885 - 502 pages
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 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. TRUMRULL. Cato ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope wrote... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 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 Letter to Sir W. Trumbull.26") Cato ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 654 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... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1886 - 340 pages
...sent for Barton Booth, and presented him with a purse of fifty guineas as some acknowledgment for his "defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." This perpetual dictator being none other than the great Duke of Marlborough, a staunch Whig, who at this... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1879 - 604 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." Is not Drury Lane Theatre also intimately associated with the name of Colley Cibber, successful manager... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 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. TRUMBCLL. ovations, complimentary garlands from literary men, translations... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 pages
...the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledg1 Johnson, merit, 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... | |
 | Arthur Hassall - 1889 - 272 pages
...Bolingbroke cleverly fumed the tables on his opponents by presenting the leading actor, Booth, with fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. On the 5th of May 1713, peace was proclaimed in London, and was received with universal rejoicing.... | |
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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. 
