The fashionable amusements afforded by Vauxhall Gardens inspired Walpole to write, I used formerly to think no trees beautiful without lamps to them, like those at Vauxhall. Here seen dining beneath the lights and the orchestra are the writers Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, and James Boswell. Boswell praised Vauxhall's Acurious show,--gay exhibition,--musick, vocal and instrumental, not too refined for the general ear . . . and, though last, not least, good eating and drinking for those who choose to purchase that regale.