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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. "
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper - Page 481
redigeeritud poolt - 1810
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 lehte
...clap, to shew 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...design a second present, when they can accompany it wi;h as good a sentence. The play, supported thus by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night...
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Select British Classics, 11. köide

1803 - 434 lehte
...clap, to shew 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...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...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

1803 - 420 lehte
...clap, to shew 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...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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 78. köide

1843 - 586 lehte
...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...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., 1. köide

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 lehte
...clap, to shew 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...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,...
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The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted ...

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 lehte
...mentioned as a satire on the Tories, and the Tories echoed every clap to shew that the satire was unfelt. The play, supported thus by the emulation of factious...was acted night after night for a longer time than it is thought the public had allowed to any drama before; and the Author, as Mrs. Porter related, wandered...
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Characteristic Anecdotes of Men of Learning and Genius: Natives of Great ...

John Watkins - 1808 - 568 lehte
...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, very speedily;...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, 10. köide

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 lehte
...clap, to shew 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...when they can accompany it with as good a sentence. # Spcnce. The The play, supported thus by the emulation of factious praise, was acted night after night...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., 6. köide

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 362 lehte
...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...
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Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and ...

Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 lehte
...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;...
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