 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...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. Ver. 46. As Cato's self, fyc.] This alludes to that famous story of his coming into the Theatre, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 pages
...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. The play, supported... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 pages
...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. The play, supported... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 pages
...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...of liberty so well against a perpetual Dictator."* This piece, which was represented for thirty-five successive nights, and was also performed at Oxford... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...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...of liberty so well against a perpetual Dictator."* This piece, which was represented for thirty-five successive nights, and was also performed at Oxford... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 630 pages
...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 it) for defending the cause * The Prologue was written by Pope, and is considered as a perfect model of that style of composition.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 pages
...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 it) for defending the cause * The Prologue was written by Pope, and is considered as a perfect model of that style of composition.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...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 - 398 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...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. The play, supported... | |
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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... 
