 | 1843 - Страниц: 746
...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 - Страниц: 278
...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 - Страниц: 614
...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 - Страниц: 446
...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 - Страниц: 442
...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 - Страниц: 488
...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 - Страниц: 560
...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 - Страниц: 696
...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 - Страниц: 332
...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 - Страниц: 478
...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. 
