. The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's introduction and postscript, newly edited by Roger Ingpen. Illustrated with portraits . easant time of life, the playgoing time inyouth, when the coach is packed full to go to thetheatre, and brothers and sisters, parents and lovers(none of whom, perhaps, go very often) are all waftedtogether in a flurry of expectation ; when the only wishas they go (except with the lovers) is to go as fast aspossible, and no sound is so delightful as the cry of Bill of the Play; when the smell of link
. The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's introduction and postscript, newly edited by Roger Ingpen. Illustrated with portraits . easant time of life, the playgoing time inyouth, when the coach is packed full to go to thetheatre, and brothers and sisters, parents and lovers(none of whom, perhaps, go very often) are all waftedtogether in a flurry of expectation ; when the only wishas they go (except with the lovers) is to go as fast aspossible, and no sound is so delightful as the cry of Bill of the Play; when the smell of links in thedarkest and muddiest winters night is charming ; andthe steps of the coach are let down ; and a roar ofhoarse voices round the door, and mud-shine on thepavement, are accompanied with the sight of the warm-looking lobby which is about to be entered ; and theyenter, and pay, and ascend the pleasant stairs, andbegin to hear the silence of the house, perhaps the firstjingle of the music ; and the box is entered amidst somelittle awkwardness in descending to their places, andbeing looked at: and at length they sit, and are becomeused to by their neighbours, and shawls and smiles are 150.
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