 | Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 656 pages
...where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be distinguished; while the other half are drinking hot water, under the denomination of tea, till nine...well for the performers that they cannot be heard [...] Vauxhall is a composition of baubles overcharged with paltry ornaments, ill conceived and poorly... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - Fiction - 2005 - 341 pages
...o'clock at night, to keep them awake for the rest of the evening. As for the orchestra, the vocal musJck especially, it is well for the performers that they cannot be heard distinctly. Vauxhall is a compositoo of baubles, overcharged with paltry ornaments, ill conceived, and poorly executed; without... | |
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What are the amusements at Ranelagh ? One half of the company are following one another's tails, in an eternal circle, like so many blind asses in an olive-mill, where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be distinguished ; while the other half... 
