 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 pages
...constantly I go to Ranelagh ; which has totally beat Vauxhall. Nobody goes any where else — every body goes there. My Lord Chesterfield is so fond of it,...of it, and tell you how the floor is all of beaten princes — you can't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or Duke of Cumberland. The... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 594 pages
...constantly I go to Ranelagh ; which has totally beat Vauxhall. Nobody goes any where else — every body goes there. My Lord Chesterfield is so fond of it,...of it, and tell you how the floor is all of beaten princes — you can't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or Duke of Cumberland. The... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1854 - 456 pages
...crowding, is admitted " for twelve pence." And again two years afterwards, when the fashion had grown : " Every night constantly " I go to Ranelagh, which has...has ordered all his letters to be directed thither. You " cannot set your foot without treading on a Prince of " Wales or a Duke of Cumberland ! " * Our... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 450 pages
...crowding, is admitted " for twelve pence." And again two years afterwards, when the fashion had grown : " Every night constantly " I go to Ranelagh, which has...has ordered all his letters to be directed thither. You " cannot set your foot without treading on a Prince of " Wales or a Duke of Cumberland ! " * Our... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 454 pages
...crowding, is admitted " for twelve pence." And again two years afterwards, when the fashion had grown : " Every night constantly " I go to Ranelagh, which has...has ordered all his letters to be directed thither. You " cannot set your foot without treading on a Prince of " Wales or a Duke of Cumberland ! " * Our... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 612 pages
...constantly I go to Ranelagh, which has totally " beat Vaux hall. Nobody goes any where else — " every body goes there. My Lord Chesterfield is " so fond of it,...has ordered all his "letters to be directed thither. You cannot set " your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales " or Duke of Cumberland ! " * Our... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 818 pages
...The prince, princess, dnke, mich nobility, and much mob besides, were there." " My Lord Ches. nit-Id is so fond of it, that he says he has ordered all his letters to be ¡irectcd thither." The admission was one shilling; but the ridottos, vith supper and music, were one... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1857 - 576 pages
...great men I have been talking of, you must be informed, that every night constantly I go to Banelagh ; which has totally beat Vauxhall. Nobody goes anywhere...of it, and tell you how the floor is all of beaten princes — that you can't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or Duke of Cumberland.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - 580 pages
...— subtract twenty — add half the first number — take away all you added : now, what remains ? That you may not think I employ my time as idly as...of it, and tell you how the floor is all of beaten princes — that you can't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or Duke of Cumberland.... | |
 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - 1861 - 674 pages
...of Eanelagh : — " The Prince, Princess, Uukes, much nobility, and much mob besides were there." 1 My Lord Chesterfield is so fond of it, that he says...ordered• all his letters to be directed thither." The admission was on* shilling ; but the ridottos, with supper and music, were one guinea. Concerts... | |
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I have been talking of, you must be informed, that every night constantly I go to Ranelagh; which has totally beat Vauxhall. Nobody goes anywhere else — everybody goes there. My Lord Chesterfield is so fond of it, that he says he has ordered all his... 
