 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 536 pages
...a real, or an affected, belief of St. John, when, in 1713, upon the performance of Addison's Cato, "he called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well agamst a perpetual dictator ; " t or, as the story is told by Spence, " for... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - 732 pages
...would be more coldly estimated now, and in some degree to Booth's acting; but chiefly to party spirit. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories, and the Tories echoed every round of applause to show that the satire was uufelt.... | |
 | 1863 - 662 pages
...event is succinctly narrated by Johnson : — ' 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 show that the satire was unfelt. The story... | |
 | 1863 - 744 pages
...would be more coldly estimated now, and in some degree "to Booth's acting; but chiefly to party spirit. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories, and the Tories echoed every round of applause to show that the satire was unfelt.... | |
 | English literature - 1870 - 574 pages
...hesitation and trepidation. ' The danger was soon over. The whole nation was 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 show that the satire was unfelt. The story... | |
 | English literature - 1870 - 582 pages
...hesitation and trepidation. ' The danger was soon over. The whole nation was 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 show that the satire was unfelt. The story... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 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 cheer, to show that the satire was not felt Bolingbroke... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - English language - 1876 - 340 pages
...CHILLINGWORTH, Serm. iii. 2 ACQUIT ACTUAL. The whole nation at that time was 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 show that the satire was unfelt. The story... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 pages
...play which dealt with the Eome of Cato audiences saw constant references to the England of Anne ; " the Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned as a satire on the Tories, and the Tories echoed every clap to show that the satire was unfelt." ' Pope,... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - London (England) - 1879 - 604 pages
...Johnson remarks, in his " Life of Addison :" " 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 show 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... 
