They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived…

They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

Sourced, The Vicar of Wakefield
(1766)

Ch. 9

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