 | John Timbs - 1865 - 348 pagina’s
...were firs, and smaller ones in the balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables, and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short, it pleased me more than the finest thing I ever saw. " The next day were the fireworks, which by no means answered the expense,... | |
 | George Grove - 1883 - 782 pagina’s
...were firs, and smaller ones in the balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables > K:H R C לk x F~ ' )w ? O < E c + ? 9 R߁ ? e M( 2 [ ЅE ) ie to be once more, and probably finer as to dresses, as there ha» since been a subscription masquerade,... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1888 - 282 pagina’s
...were firs, and smaller ones in the balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short, it pleased me more than any thing I ever saw. It is to be once more, and probably finer as to dresses, as there has since been... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 364 pagina’s
...were firs, and smaller ones in the balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short,...probably finer as to dresses, as there has since been a subscription masquerade, and people will go in their rich habits. The next day were the fireworks,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 348 pagina’s
...were firs, and smaller ones in the balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short,...more, and probably finer as to dresses, as there has bince been a subscription masquerade, and people will go in their rich habits. The next day were the... | |
 | 1890 - 788 pagina’s
...were firs, and smaller ones in the balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short...pleased me more than anything I ever saw. It is to bo once more, and probably finer as to dresses, as there has since been a subscription masquerade,... | |
 | Alfred Beaver - 1892 - 448 pagina’s
...in the balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables and dancing, and about a thousand persons. In short, it pleased me more than...probably finer as to dresses, as there has since been a subscription masquerade, and people will go in their rich habits.' At length the masquerades were suppressed,... | |
 | Warwick William Wroth, Arthur Edgar Wroth - 1896 - 602 pagina’s
...were firs, and smaller ones in the balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables, and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short, it pleased me more than the finest thing I ever saw." Later masquerades, though attended by fashionable people, were less select,... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1896 - 154 pagina’s
...were firs, and smaller ones in the balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables, and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short, it pleased me better than anything I ever saw. It is to be once more, and probably finer as to dresses, as there... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1903 - 494 pagina’s
...were firs, and smaller ones in the balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. ,In short,...The next day were the fireworks, which by no means ansrwered the expense, the length of preparation, and the expectation that had been raised : indeed,... | |
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... with small lamps in each orange, and below them all sorts of the finest auriculas in pots; and festoons of natural flowers hanging from tree to tree. Between the arches too were firs, and smaller ones in the balconies above. There were booths for... 
