 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - 658 strani
...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'-.' The play ran during an entire month, and afterwards enjoyed a supplementary triumph at Oxford a. The... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1876 - 340 strani
...satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke 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 play ['Cato'] was acted night after night for a long time. When it was printed, notice was given... | |
 | Edward Ellis Morris - 1877 - 290 strani
...capital hit by sending for the chief actor between the acts, and presenting him with a purse of 5o/. ' for •defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.' The saying went round the Tory benches that the Whigs meant to make as good a present, when they •could... | |
 | Lucy Cecil Lillie - 1878 - 384 strani
...fancied the play was meant to satirize Marlborough, was in a box, and between the acts he sent for Booth and presented him with fifty guineas " for defending...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1879 - 250 strani
...two acts, he 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 strani
...two acts, he 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... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 246 strani
...Bolingbroke gave the cue to his own party when he presented fifty guineas to Cato's representative for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The Whigs, said Pope, design a second present when they can contrive as good a saying. Bolingbroke... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 strani
...Bolingbroke gave the cue to his own party when he presented fifty guineas to Cators representatives for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The Whigs, said Pope, design a second present when they can contrive as good a saying. Bolingbroke... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 strani
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 strani
...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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Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. 
