 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 oldal
...opposite faction, my Lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the box, and presented him with fifty guineas in acknowledgment (as he expressed...cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. "— POPE'S Letters to'S1R W. TRUMBULL. "Cato" ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 718 oldal
...sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theatre, with a purse of fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual Dictator. This was a pungent allusion to the attempt which Marlborough had made, not long before his fall, to... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 oldal
...had his own way. He sent between the acts for Booth, who acted Cato, and gave him fifty guineas, " for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." John Dennis appeared as a hostile critic, with Remarks upon Cato, a Tragedy; and Pope then, upon a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 oldal
...applauding the play, Bolingbroke presenting Booth, who performed Cato, with fifty guineas 'in acknowledgment for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.' Addison disclaimed all political design, and waived the profits of the performances of the tragedy... | |
 | Francis Espinasse - 1874 - 498 oldal
...Lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledgment (as he expressed...a present to the same Cato, very speedily : in the meantime they are getting ready as good a sentence as the former on their side ; so betwixt them it... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 414 oldal
...dismal union.* ^ played Cato, into the box, and presented him with fifty guineas in acknowledg/ ment (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." — POPE'S Letters to SIR W. TKUMBULL. Cato ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope wrote... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 480 oldal
...Holland House three years after that splendid but dismal union.* played Cato, into the box, and presented him with fifty guineas in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the caase of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." — POPE'S Letters to SIR W. TBCMBULL. Cato... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - 658 oldal
...the opposite faction, Lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into his box, and presented him with fifty guineas in acknowledgment (as he expressed...liberty so well against a perpetual dictator'-.' The play ran during an entire month, and afterwards enjoyed a supplementary triumph at Oxford a. The criticisms... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - 694 oldal
...the opposite faction, Lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into his box, and presented him with fifty guineas in acknowledgment (as he expressed...defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator2.' The play ran during an entire month, and afterwards enjoyed a supplementary triumph at... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 oldal
...to show 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... | |
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This was the case too of the prologuewriter,* who was clapped into a staunch whig, at almost every two lines. I believe you have heard, that, after all the applauses of the opposite faction, my lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the... 
