… who are so very dextrous at entertaining a vizard mask in the park or the playhouse, that, in the company of ladies of virtue and honour, they are silent and disconcerted, and out of their element. There are some people who think they …
… Stage Poets, and Play-House,’ wrote Collier; theatre ‘strikes at the Root of Principle, draws off the Inclinations from Virtue, and spoils good Education: ‘Tis the most effectual means to baffle the Force of Discipline, to emasculate peoples …
… in various parts of England, quickly incorporated his discoveries into their repertoires. They described the medicinal virtues of carbonated water and the use of ‘inflammable air’ (hydrogen) in balloons. Walker adopted the new gases in his …
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