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Title: Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff), 1842-1900 Mann, James Saumarez, 1851-
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the Duke (of Cumberland), much notability and mueli mobbesides were there. There is a vast amphitheatre, finely gilt, painted andilluminated, into which everybody that loves eating, drinking, staring, orcrowding, is admitted for Is. Building and laying out the gardens cost £16,000.Twice a week there are to be Ridottos at guinea tickets, for which you areto have supper and music. I was there last night, but did not find thejoy of it. Yauxhall is a little better, for tiie garden is pleasauter and onegoes by water. Under Jonathan Tyer, Aauxhall had recovered its reputa-tion, and it was reopened (1736), decorated with designs byHogarth. The humbler citizens went for similar entertain-ments to Sadlers Wells, Islington, and Cupars Gardens,Lambeth, opposite Somerset House. Marylebone Gardenswere fashionable for breakfast parties, for bowling and forcold batliing in the open air. National feeling, irrespective of religious sentiment, washostile to the drama. Only a small class frequented the
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Theatres 190 THE AGE OF WALPOLE. (1714 theatres, for the world of fashion had withdrawn to the opera-house. To create counter-attractions the theatres started panto-mimes and harlequinades, and the legitimate drama was banisheduntil the close of the period, when Garrick began to act Shake-speare in the Goodman Fields Theatre. In 1728 the successof Gays Bcijgars Opera at Lincolns Inn Fields gave a briefimpulse to the drama as a political instrument; but the Courtparty was able to suppress as licentious ^ all plays which were

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