As well, the musical form connected a social text of populism and nonelitism to the members' positions as public personalities.

The walled garden full of shadows blazed with colour as if the flowers were giving up the light absorbed during the day.

Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.

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