Letter to Samuel Crisp (1775) [ People / Practices ]
… his Eyes—he should not have known the Gabriella! ' I forget whether I told you of Gabrielli's Train as she quits the Opera House of a Saturday Night? Take it now, however, as Lady Edgecumbe told it. 'First goes a running Foot man; then … & charming. I am extremely pleased to find that he gains ground with the Public Daily; his friends encrease every opera Night. The more they hear, the more they like him, especially as ' (at) his first appearance,97 he had the … which, Lord Edgecumbe hurried, in a droll manner, up to Rauzzini to tell him of Gabrielli's Ceremony on leaving the opera House—though to be sure he must know most of that matter himself. Lord Edgecumbe speaks but indifferent French, & …
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