 | 1843 - 746 pages
...celebrated actor, was playing Cato, Lord Bolingbroke sent for him into his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well ' against a perpetual dictator:' glancing at the protracted sway of the Duke of Marlborough; or rather at his attempt to be made CaptainGeneral... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...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.* It was April; and in April, a hundred and thirty years ago, the London season was thought to be far... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 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...cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator 7. The Whigs are unwilling to be distanced this way, and therefore design a present to the same Cato... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 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...the cause of liberty so well, against a perpetual Dictator9." This piece, which was represented for thirty-five successive nights, and was also performed... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 560 pages
...established his fame in the part of Cato. Bolingbroke made him a present of fifty guineas, as he said, " for defending the cause of liberty so well against a Perpetual Dictator " ; in which that versatile personage made it clear to the player, that there were actors, not trained... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - 696 pages
...most, Bolingbroke called Booth into his box at the theatre, and gave him a purse with fifty guineas " for defending the cause of liberty so well against a PERPETUAL DICTATOR." Although the Whig party had so much fallen in reputation, partly from their rejection of the overtures... | |
 | William Bourne Oliver Peabody - 1850 - 478 pages
...established his fame in the part of Cato. Bolingbroke made him a present of fifty guineas, as he said, " for defending the cause of liberty so well against a Perpetual Dictator ; " in which that versatile personage made it clear to the player, that there were actors, not trained... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 332 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
