 | 1843 - 746 páginas
...surfeited with it. When Booth, the celebrated actor, was playing Cato, Lord Bolingbroke sent for him into his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending...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... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1843 - 278 páginas
...between one of the acts, 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 whigs are unwilling to be distanced this way, and therefore design a present to the same Cato very speedily... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 páginas
...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.* It was April ; and in April, a hundred and thirty years ago, the London season was thought to be far... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 páginas
...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.* It was April; and in April, a hundred and thirty years ago, the London season was thought to be far... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 páginas
...suffered inexpressible uneasiness and solicitude during the representation. Bolingbroke called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 páginas
...between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas ; in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 560 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - 696 páginas
...should applaud it 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 332 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Bourne Oliver Peabody - 1850 - 478 páginas
...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... | |
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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 of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. 
