 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 Seiten
...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 - 1894 - 128 Seiten
...two acts he sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theater, 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... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1894 - 300 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 282 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1895 - 508 Seiten
...two acts he sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theater, 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 - 1898 - 254 Seiten
...two acts he sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theater, 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 - 1898 - 164 Seiten
...two acts he sent for Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theater, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 Seiten
...clap, to showthat the satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending...well against a perpetual dictator. The Whigs, says 10 Pope, design a second present, when they can accompany it with as good a sentence. The play, supported... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 Seiten
...hero, Marlborough, who had so long had his own way. He sent between the acts for Booth, who acted Cato, age on hereditary right in matters of succession that caused Elizabeth to imprison the author and bid John Dennis appeared as a hostile critic, with Remarks upon Cato, a Tragedy ; and Pope then, upon a... | |
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Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was 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. 
