excerpt from 'Diary of Mary Berry, 14 April 1811' pp. 472 (115 words)
excerpt from 'Diary of Mary Berry, 14 April 1811' pp. 472 (115 words)
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After five, went to the Magdalen. We got there early, before the chapel was a third part full; but before the service began it was full in every part, containing, I suppose, at least six or seven hundred people. Everything about it very decent, and well kept and ordered. It was well lighted up with no less than ninety-six spermaceti candles. The preaching not good; the singing of the hymns and psalms from the women behind the high screen of green stuff, which entirely hides them from the audience, agreeable and affecting; indeed, I think the Evening Hymn always so. One or two of the voices were very sweet, and the rest did in chorus. |
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