 | Alexander Pope - 1737 - 286 pagine
...Dictator. The whigs are unwilling to be diftanc'd this way, and therefore defign a prefent to the fame Cato very Speedily ; in the mean time they are getting ready as good a fen tence as the former on their fide : fo betwixt them, 'tis probable that Cato (as Dr. Garth expreft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1803 - 434 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1803 - 420 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 - 1808 - 768 pagine
...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...time they are getting ready as good a sentence as the fornier, on their side ; so betwixt them it is probable, that Cato (as Dr. Garth exprest it) may have... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 568 pagine
...Cato, into the box, between one of the acts, and preiented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledgment, (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty...speedily; in the mean time they are getting ready us good a sentence as the former, 00 their side; so betwixt them it it is probable, that Cato (as Dr.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 598 pagine
...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... | |
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... for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. 
