I was witness of ; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery ; whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset... Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second - Página 446de Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1846 - 546 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1818 - 606 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table; a bank of at least rf'-iOOO in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six davs after, all was in the dust !' He deplored his loss, he said,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table; a bank of at least =£"3000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust!' He deplored his loss, he said,... | |
| 1819 - 552 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table; a bank of at least ^20OO in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after all was in the dust!' , In the year 1694 he left Sayes Court, after... | |
| 1819 - 630 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a lar^e table ; a bank of at least £2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexion* with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust!' He deplored his loss, he said,... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 páginas
...courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset, round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand in gold before them; upon which, two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days, qfter, "was all in dust!" From this moment, the court of England assumed... | |
| Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 450 páginas
...other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand pounds in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust !" The conduct of James completed the ruin of... | |
| Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 454 páginas
...other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand pounds in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust !" The conduct of James completed the ruin of... | |
| Horace Smith - 1826 - 418 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at bassett round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them : upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust." — Memoirs, vol. 1. p. .08.5. CHAPTER V. Who... | |
| Nathaniel Appleton Haven - 1827 - 404 páginas
...witness of ; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery...two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust ! " " Thrones fall and dynasties are changed... | |
| Nathaniel Appleton Haven - 1827 - 406 páginas
...witness of ; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery;...two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust ! " " Thrones fall and dynasties are changed... | |
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