| History - 1778 - 626 pages
...Hone Tone's ihe space 'iwixt Saturday and Monday, And riding in a one-horse chair o' Sunday ! 'Ть drinking tea on summer afternoons At Bagnigge Wells, with china and gilt spoons ! • Tis la} ing by our ..¡MI,,, red cloaks and pattens, I o dance tovv-tillipib, all in silks and .sailing... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...riding in a one-horse chair o' Sunday! fis drinking tea, on summer afternoons, .t Bagnigge Wells, wi th china and gilt spoons! Tis laying by our stuffs, red cloaks, and pattens, 'o dance cowtillions all in silks and satins !" Vulgar !" cries Miss — " Observe, in higher life,... | |
| David Garrick - 1822 - 44 pages
...Bone Tone's the space 'twixt Saturday and Monday, And riding in a one-horse chair o' Sunday ! ' Tis drinking tea on summer afternoons At Bagnigge- Wells,...with china, and gilt spoons ! ' Tis laying by our stuff's, red cloaks, and pattens, To dance Cow-tillions, all in silks and satins ! Vulgar! cries Miss.... | |
| Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...'Soné Tone's the space 'twixt Saturday and Monday, And riding in a one-horse chair un Sunday. 'Tis drinking tea on summer afternoons At Bagnigge Wells with china and gilt spoons.' There is a print of the company in the great room, styled, ' The lîread and Butter Manufactory, or... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 820 pages
...children, to take tea in the arbor. In one of Colman's plays, a Spitalfields dame defines ban-ton as Drinking tea on summer afternoons At Bagnigge Wells with china and gilt spoons. London was surrounded, in fact, with teagardens : the most popular were Sadler's Wells, Merlin's Cave,... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1871 - 516 pages
...may have originated the tradition that it was the residence of his frail namesake. Colman speaks of " drinking tea, on summer afternoons, At Bagnigge Wells, with china and gilt spoons." At Sadler's Wells, within no great distance of Bagnigge Wells, is another medicinal spring, formerly... | |
| Sidney Corner - 1875 - 288 pages
...there, and yet remembered in the elder Colman's Prologue to Garrick's farce of " Bon Ton:"— " 'Tis drinking tea on summer afternoons, At Bagnigge Wells, with china, and gilt spoons." Continuing onwards, and passing the large building on their right, one wing of which was already finished,... | |
| John Diprose - Actors - 1877 - 308 pages
..."Bone Tones, the space 'twixt Saturday and Monday, And riding in a one-horse chair on Sunday. 'Tis drinking tea on summer afternoons At Bagnigge Wells with china and gilt spoons. " Miss Edgeworth alludes to it in one of her tales as a. place of vulgar resort ; and a writer of 1780,... | |
| Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan - Mathematicians - 1882 - 472 pages
...life, ban ton, and the thing, were synonymous terms ; and, according to the City lady, it consisted in — Drinking tea, on summer afternoons, At Bagnigge Wells, with china and gilt spoons. All the definitions we have given apply to the life of organised material beings. Thus restricted,... | |
| Dutton Cook - Acting - 1883 - 378 pages
...Monday. And riding in a one-horse chaise o'sunday ; 'Tis drinkin™ tea in summer afternoons. At Bagguige Wells with china and gilt spoons — 'Tis laying by our stuffs, red cloaks nnd pattens, To dance cow-tillons all in silks and satins. The Gardens were originally extensive, and... | |
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