| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...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. The Whigs, says Pope, design a second present, when they can accompany it wi;h as good a sentence.... | |
| 1843 - 586 páginas
...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.* 1 The long sway of the Duke of Marlborough,' says Miss Aikiu, It was April; and in April, a hundred... | |
| 1803 - 420 páginas
...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. The play, supported thus' by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night, for a longer... | |
| 1803 - 434 páginas
...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. The play, supported thus by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night, for a longer... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...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. The Whigs, says Popr, design a second present; when they can accompany it with as good a sentence.... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 páginas
...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 - 568 páginas
...between one of the acts, and preiented 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,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 páginas
...satire was unR-.lt . The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth ta 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.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 páginas
...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. The whigs, says Pope, design a second present, when they can accompany it with as good a sentence.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 páginas
...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. The whigs, says Pope, design a second present, when they can accompany it with as good a sentence.... | |
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