 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - Страниц: 660
...played Cato, into the box, and presented him with fifty guineas in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. "— POPE'S Letters to'S1R W. TRUMBULL. "Cato" ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - Страниц: 964
...hero, Marlborough, who had so long had his own way. He sent between the acts for Booth, who acted Cato, and gave him fifty guineas, " for defending the cause...of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator." John Dennis appeared as a hostile critic, with Remarks upon Cato, a Tragedy; and Pope then, upon a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - Страниц: 718
...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... | |
 | Francis Espinasse - 1874 - Страниц: 494
...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... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - Страниц: 674
...and the Tories echoed every cheer, to show that the satire was not felt Bolingbroke called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending...liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The play, thus supported by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night for a longer... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - Страниц: 658
...played Cato, into his box, 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 play ran during an entire month, and afterwards enjoyed a supplementary triumph at Oxford a. The criticisms... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1876 - Страниц: 340
...clap to show that the satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth into his box and gave him fifty guineas for defending the...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 - Страниц: 290
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1879 - Страниц: 250
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - Страниц: 684
...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... | |
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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. 
