 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 box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledgment, as he expressed it, for...  A History of English Poetry - Page 427by William John Courthope - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 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. The Whigs, says Pope, design a second present, when they can accompany it wi;h as good a sentence. The play, supported... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 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. The play, supported thus by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night, for a longer... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 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. The play, supported thus' by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night, for a longer... | |
 | 1843 - 586 pages
...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.* 1 The long sway of the Duke of Marlborough,' says Miss Aikiu, It was April; and in April, a hundred... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 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. The Whigs, says Popr, design a second present; when they can accompany it with as good a sentence. . . < The play,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...acts, and presented him with fifty guineas ; in acknowledgment, as he expressed it with great address, for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. approbation. But I have always thought, that those pompous Roman sentiments are not so difficult to... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 768 pages
...sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledgment, (as he expressed it) for...a present to the same Cato, very speedily ; in the mean time they are getting ready as good a sentence as the fornier, on their side ; so betwixt them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 598 pages
...story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to "Spenc*. his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The Whigs, says Pope, design a second present, when they can accompany it with as good a sentence. The play, supported... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 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. The Whigs, says Pope, design a second present, when they can accompany it with as good a sentence. # Spcnce. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 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. The whigs, says Pope, design a second present, when they can accompany it with as good a sentence. The play, supported... | |
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