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" His grace always gave them a dinner at the conclusion of the season, and his parting toast was, May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring, meet here again. "
Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ... - Page 35
by George Willis - 1854
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The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the Best and Newest Anecdotes and ...

Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...Some Dukes at Marybone bowl time away." Here, at the end of the season, as Qnin told Pennant, the Duke gave a dinner to the chief frequenters of the place,...thought appropriate, " May as many of us as remain unchanged next spring meet here again." FEDEEOFF'S STEAM-ENGINE. Michael Vassily Federoff, a young...
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CURRENT NOTES: A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON ANTIQUITIES, BIOGRAPHY, HERALRY ...

G. WILLIS - 1854
...came, as Polly Peachum says, to learn valour. Here Sheffield Duke of Buckingham was wont " to bowl time away," and at the end of the season gave a dinner...unhanged next spring meet here again !" It was in this delectable tea-drinking place of resort that the noted Dr. Truslcr was born, 1735. His father was the...
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Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons ..., Volume 3

John Timbs - London (England) - 1865 - 348 pages
...here ; he describes it as " a place of air and exercise ; " and, at the end of the season, the Duke gave a dinner to the chief frequenters of the place, drinking the toast, " May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet here again." The Gardens are the scenes of...
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Clubs and Club Life in London: With Anecdotes of Its Famous Coffee Houses ...

John Timbs - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1872 - 646 pages
...whom his Grace always gave a dinner at the conclusion of the season ; and his parting toast was, " May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet here again." These Bowling-greens were afterwards incorporated with the well-known Marylebone Gardens, upon the...
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Club life of London

John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pages
...whom his Grace always gave a dinner at the conclusion of the season ; and his parting toast was, " May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet here again." These Bowling-greens were afterwards incorporated with the well-known Marylebone Gardens, upon the...
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The Wishing-cap Papers

Leigh Hunt - 1873 - 480 pages
...infamous sharpers of the time," who gambled at that place, and of a toast with which he concluded it : " May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring, meet here again." " I remember,"- says Pennant, "the facetious Quin telling this story at Bath, within hearing of the...
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The Wishing-cap Papers

Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1874 - 496 pages
...infamous sharpers of the time," who gambled at that place, and of a toast with which he concluded it: " May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring, meet here again." " I remember," says Pennant, " the facetious Quin telling this story at Bath, within hearing of the...
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The New England Freemason, Volume 2

Sereno Dwight Nickerson, Charles H. Titus - 1875 - 650 pages
...whom his Grace always gave a dinner at the conclusion of the season ; and his parting toast was, ' May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet here again ! ' " These Bowling-greens were afterwards incorporated with the well-known Marylebone Gardens, upon...
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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent ..., Volume 2

George Grove - Music - 1880 - 866 pages
...gave every spring a dinner to the chief frequenters of the place, at which his parting toast was ' May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet here again.' It was he who was alluded to in Lady Mary Wortley Montague's oft -quoted line, 'Some dukes at Marybone bowl...
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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by Eminent ..., Volume 2

George Grove - Music - 1880 - 778 pages
...gave every spring a dinner to the chief frequenters of the place, at which his parting toast was ' May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet here again.' It was he who was alluded to in Lady Mary Wortley Montague's oft -quoted line, 'Some dukes at Marybone bowl...
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