The Play-bills, 1830 [ Practices ]
… Tatlers will be “ frequent and full” in the pit and boxes. We shall be glad to see them. Nothing will give us greater pleasure than to find ourselves thus visibly multiplied, and to see the ladies bending over us. Happy shall we be, to be … a party with him, especially ladies, the purchase of a bill gives him an opportunity of shewing how he consults their pleasure in trifles. If he is alone, it is a companion. He has also the glory of being able to lend it: —though with what … better to purchase a bill, than to give money, even to the sellers ; for you thus encourage the sale, give and receive a pleasure, and save the venders from the temptation of begging. A Tatler, we allow, costs two-pence, whereas the common …
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