 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1876 - 340 pages
...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 that... | |
 | Edward Ellis Morris - 1877 - 290 pages
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 pages
...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...liberty so well against a perpetual dictator."— POPE'S Letters to SIR W. TRUMRULL. Cato ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope wrote... | |
 | 1885 - 502 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 pages
...box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledg1 Johnson, merit, as he expressed it, for defending the cause of liberty...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 - 1886 - 914 pages
...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...of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." — POPE'S Letters to SIR W. TRUMBCLL. ovations, complimentary garlands from literary men, translations... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 312 pages
...the acts, and presented him ' with fifty guineas, in acknowledgment, as he ' expressed it, for his defending the cause of ' liberty so well against a...The Whigs are unwilling to be distanced ' this way, as it is said, and, therefore, design ' a present to the said Cato very speedily. In ' the meantime... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 pages
...one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledgment, as he expressed it, for his defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual...The Whigs are unwilling to be distanced this way, as it is said, and, therefore, design a present to the said Cato very speedily. In the^meantime they... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1879 - 604 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." Is not Drury Lane Theatre also intimately associated with the name of Colley Cibber, successful manager... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pages
...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...of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." — POPE'S Letters to SIR W. TRUMRCLL. " Cato " ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope... | |
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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... 
