 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 484 pages
...the shopkeepers in mask. The amphitheatre was illuminated, and in the middle was a circular bower, composed of all kinds of firs in tubs, from twenty...balconies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gambing-tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short, it pleased me more than anything... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...the shopkeepers in mask. The amphitheatre was illuminated ; and in the middle was a circular bower, composed of all kinds of firs in tubs, from twenty...There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short, it pleased me more than anything I ever saw. It... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...the shopkeepers in mask. The amphitheatre was illuminated ; and in the middle was a circular bower, composed of all kinds of firs in tubs, from twenty...There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. In short, it pleased me more than anything I ever saw. It... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...the shopkeepers in mask. The amphitheatre was illuminated ; and in the middle was a circular bower, composed of all kinds of firs in tubs, from twenty...the arches too were firs, and smaller ones in the baleonies above. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming-tables and dancing, and about two thousand... | |
 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1865 - 348 pages
...the shopkeepers in mask ; the amphitheatre was illuminated, and in the middle was a circular bower, composed of all kinds of firs in tubs, from twenty...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... | |
 | George Grove - Music - 1883 - 782 pages
...the shopkeepers in mask. The amphitheatre was illuminated: and in the middle wai a circular bower, ň" q 8&* A 7j =̌\ j d EU<NF K쬾 n V $ e 7o T8X B 5 orange trees with small lamps in each orange, and below them all sorts of the finest auriculas in pots;... | |
 | harper's monthly magazine - 1884 - 992 pages
...the shop-keepers in ma.sk. The amphitheatre was illuminated, and in the middle was a circular bower, composed of all kinds of firs in tubs, from twenty to thirty feet high; under them orange- 1 ref;with small lam]» in each orange, and below them all sorts of the finest auricula* in... | |
 | Literature - 1884 - 990 pages
...the shop-keepers in mask. The amphitheatre was illuminated, and in the middle was a circular bower, composed of all kinds of firs in tubs, from twenty to thirty feet high; under them orange -trees with small lamps in each orange, and below them all sorts of the finest auriculas in... | |
 | Literature - 1884 - 1082 pages
...the shop-keepers in mask. The amphitheatre was illuminated, and in the middle was a circular bower, composed of all kinds of firs in tubs, from twenty to thirty feet high; under them orange -trees with small lamps in each orange, and below them all sorts of the finest auriculas in... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1888 - 284 pages
...the shopkeepers in mask. The amphitheatre was illuminated ; and in the middle was a circular bower, composed of all kinds of firs in tubs from twenty...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... | |
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The amphitheatre was illuminated ; and in the middle was a circular bower, composed of all kinds of firs in tubs, from twenty to thirty feet high : under them orangetrees, with small lamps in each orange, and below them all sorts of the finest auriculas... 
