 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...satire o» the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every 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 the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The play, supported thus by the emulation of... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every 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 the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The play, supported thus' by the emulation of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...practiced for Cato. The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire •with faction. The Whigs applauded every line in which Liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories'; and the Tories echoed every clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt. The story... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...grand climacteric ot' Addison's reputation. T he whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned as a satire on the Tories, and the Tories echoed every clap to shew that the satire was unfelt. The play,... | |
 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1805 - 470 pages
...grand climaderic of Addison's reputation. The whole nation was at that time on fí-г with fdftioo. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap, to shtw that the satire was Uiifelt. Wtiiie... | |
 | 1806 - 448 pages
...Addison, and was praised by all parties. The whole nation w.as at that time niil.i'iH'il with faction: the Whigs applauded every line in which. liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories, and the Tories echoed every clap, to shew that the satire was tinfelt." "This... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 758 pages
...' Girth. It was received with the non ipplaufcj having rua thirty-five nights without interruption. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was...on the Tories; and the Tories echoed every clap, to (how that the fatire was umclt. When it was printed, notice was given that the Queen would be pleafed... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...practised for Cato. The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire irith faction. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satin' mi the Tories; and the Toriesechoed every clap, to show that the satire vas unfclt. The story... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...practised for Cato. The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on thetories; and thetories echoed every clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt. The story... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...practised for Cato. The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the tories ; and the tories echoed every clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt. The story... | |
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This, says Pope *, had been tried for the first time in favour of the Distrest Mother; and was now, with more efficacy, practised for Cato. The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The Whigs applauded every line... 
