I found old Marshall's house a very fine one.

He ought indeed to have a fine one; for he has, I believe, at least thirty thousand a year.

The carpet was taken up, and chairs were set out in rows, as if we had been at a religious meeting.

Then we had flute-playing by the first flute-player in England, and pianoforte-strumming by the first pianoforte-strummer in England, and singing by all the first singers in England, and Signor Rubini's incomparable tenor, and Signor Curioni's incomparable counter-tenor, and Pasta's incomparable expression.

You who know how airs much inferior to these take my soul, and lap it in Elysium, will form some faint conception of my transport.