I shall not endeavour to deprive either country of its share of beauty; but must say, that of all objects on this earth, an English farmer's daughter is most charming.

Every woman there is a complete beauty, while the higher class of women want many of the requisites to make them even tolerable.
"Their pleasures here are very dull though very various.

You may smoke, you may doze, you may go to the Italian comedy, as good an amusement as either of the former.

This entertainment always brings in Harlequin, who is generally a magician, and in consequence of his diabolical art performs a thousand tricks on the rest of the persons of the drama, who are all fools.

I have seen the pit in a roar of laughter at this humour, when with his sword he touches the glass from which another was drinking.