Percival Leigh, Manners and customs of ye Englyshe… (1849)
“ WENT this Morning to Exeter Hall, where one of the May Meetings that do regularly take Place at this Time of the Season, and serve in lieu of Concerts and Shows to a Sort of People that call themselves serious. ”
Percival Leigh, Manners and customs of ye Englyshe… (1849)
“ Such Violence, methinks, do only prove that there are other Bigots betides Papists; and is the word Means of enforcing any Truth; for they that speak in Anger and Passion are commonly concluded by indifferent People to be in the Wrong. ”
Percival Leigh, Manners and customs of ye Englyshe… (1849)
“ Yet at times they stooped to Drollery in the Height of their Passion, and one of them did make such Sport of the Roman Catholique Religion as would not have been suffered in the Adelphi Theatre. But I do find that some who would not be seen in a Play-House can enjoy their Laugh at Exeter Hall. ”
