Speak Louder!" Cried Out
Some Rude Fellow From The Upper-Gallery, And She Immediately, With
Infinite Condescension, Did All She Could, And Not Unsuccessfully,
To Please Even An Upper Gallery Critic.
The persons near me, in the pit, were often extravagantly lavish of
their applause.
They sometimes clapped a single solitary sentiment,
that was almost as unmeaning as it was short, if it happened to be
pronounced only with some little emphasis, or to contain some little
point, some popular doctrine, a singularly pathetic stroke, or turn
of wit.
"The Agreeable Surprise" was repeated, and I saw it a second time
with unabated pleasure. It is become a favourite piece, and always
announced with the addition of the favourite musical farce. The
theatre appeared to me somewhat larger than the one at Hamburg, and
the house was both times very full. Thus much for English plays,
play-houses, and players.
English Customs and Education.
A few words more respecting pedantry. I have seen the regulation of
one seminary of learning, here called an academy. Of these places
of education, there is a prodigious number in London, though,
notwithstanding their pompous names, they are in reality nothing
more than small schools set up by private persons, for children and
young people.
One of the Englishmen who were my travelling companions, made me
acquainted with a Dr. G - who lives near P - , and keeps an academy
for the education of twelve young people, which number is here, as
well as at our Mr. Kumpe's, never exceeded, and the same plan has
been adopted and followed by many others, both here and elsewhere.
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