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Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… thank God,handsome and plump,and, as far as I can judge, gay, and in good spirits. I had, some time before she left …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… with the figure of the great cardinal moving through the gay courtiers that thronged his stately courts, unmindful of … him, and constrained himself, as Marillac says, 'to be as gay as ever with the ladies,' while a further investigation … noble masques and mummeries.' 311 This was the end of the gay scenes at Hampton Court which Henry had loved. A little …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Guide to Hampton Court (1825) says that 'he spent many gay hours at the stud-house.' Law, op. cit. iii, 335. Colonel …
Old and New London
… yet it may probably have been the scene of more than one gay frolic in other days. The "Grange" Innremoved in 1853 to … Row. Yet, in olden days, it must have been lively and gay; for did not the "Lincoln's Inn Theatre" once cover the … Opera was produced and acted for sixty-two nights, "making Gay rich and Rich gay." In 1732 Rich removed to Covent …
Old and New London
… The wards of the women, as already stated, are much more gay and cheerful than those in the men's wing. Their windows …
Old and New London
… of the late lotteries, in imitation of those at Venice." Gay, in his "Trivia," sings: "Here to seven streets Seven … occur in the plays of the time of Queen Anne; and Gay, in the Beggar's Opera, alludes to it as one of the three …
Old and New London
… that by all that the quiet country parson-poet saw in the gay world of London he seems to have been quite unaltered, … at court, and one of his Majesty's companions in his gay hours. On one of these occasions a stranger came with an …
Old and New London
… or even of sedan-chairs. On the happiness of those days, Gay thus descants in his "Trivia:" "Thus was of old … narrow step affects a limping air." At the time of which Gay speaks, of course it was but a rare thing for a country … to have seized each other by the throata scene which Gay portrayed in the Beggar's Opera, under the characters of …
Old and New London
… were employed in embassies of high dignity and importance. Gay, who commenced life as apprentice to a silk-mercer, …
Old and New London
… Of such a character, which the dull overlook, and the gay despise, it was fit that the value should be made known, …