...sooner was this mandate (in whatever terms the published one was couched) fulminated from Kingstreet, ' than the lean and slippered pantaloon' was exterminated, and as the directresses directed, ' short hose' was the order of the day. " If the same lovely and honourable ladies were to take the Opera House under...

...sooner was this mandate (in whatever terms the published one was couched) fulminated from Kingstreet, ' than the lean and slippered pantaloon' was exterminated, and as the directresses directed, i short hose' was the order of the day. " If the same lovely and honourable ladies were to take the...

...sooner was this mandate, in whatever terms the published one was couched, fulminated from Kingstreet, than the ' lean and slippered pantaloon' was exterminated,...same lovely and honourable ladies were to take the opera-house under their purifying control, and issue, in the same spirit at least, an order that '...

...printed) from this mighty conclave, announcing their fiat in thesu words : ' Gentlemen will not lie admitted without breeches and stockings !' " No sooner...in the same spirit at least, an order that ' Ladies will not be permitted to appear without ' (whatever may be the proper names for the drapery of females)...

...stockings. Although this gave occasion for the wags of London to make merry over the suggestion that " if the same lovely and honourable ladies were to take the Opera House under their purifying controul, and issue, in the same spirit at least, an order that ladies were not to be permitted to...

...occasion for the wags of 1 Philip Spencer-Stanhope. «D London to make merry over the suggestion that " if the same lovely and honourable ladies were to take the Opera House under their purifying controul, and issue, in the same spirit at least, an order that ladies were not to be permitted to...