May 26, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets.
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May 26, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets.
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Night came, with that increase of gaiety which has always been night's peculiar privilege—perhaps on the principle of contrast. Monday, it was the ridotto; Tuesday, the opera; Wednesday, Ranelagh; Thursday, the play; Friday, a ball; Saturday, a rout, or else a little of all these blended together.
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