...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...

...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 year before...

...applauses of the opposite faction, my Lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the box, and presented him with fifty guineas in acknowledgement...of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.' — POPE'S 'Letter to SIR W. TRUMBUIX,'. Cato ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope...

...a perpetual dictatorship, and maintained the cause of public liberty ! " The Whigs," writes Pope, " are unwilling to be distanced this way, and therefore...a present to the same Cato, very speedily. In the meantime, they are gettii^ ready as good a sentence as the former, on their side. So betwixt them 'tis...

...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...

...sent for Booth, who 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 Letter to SIB W. '1 BUMBULL. the hands than the head I believe you have heard that, Cato...

...sent for Booth, who played Colo, 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 SIR W. TRUMBULL. " Cato " ran for thirty-five nights without interruption....

...sent for Booth, who 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 Letter to SIR W. TRUMBULL. " Cato " ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope...

...sent for Booth, who 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 SIR W. TRUMBULL. " Cato " ran for thirty-five nights without interruption. Pope...

...applauding the play, Bolingbroke presenting Booth, who performed Cato, with fifty guineas 'in acknowledgment for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.' Addison disclaimed all political design, and waived the profits of the performances of the tragedy...