excerpt from 'Tour to the West, 1781' pp. 54–55 (110 words)
excerpt from 'Tour to the West, 1781' pp. 54–55 (110 words)
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The chapel service at the colleges begins so early, that we hurry’d away from our dinner in hopes of hearing an anthem sung by a famous singing boy of New College: In summer time much of the shew and grandeur is lost by the want of illumination; and we were baulk’d of our intention, as the anthem was very ill sung, and the service most idly perform’d, by such persons as I should suppose had never learnt to sing or read; tho’ the warden himself attended and I thought might have order’d a better anthem for the strangers: but good breeding is scarcer here than elsewhere. |
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