Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second, Volumen 1H. G. Bohn, 1846 - 546 páginas |
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... master of the household to Charles : their mother was Lady Sophia Stewart , sister to the beautiful Duchess of Richmond , so conspicuous in the Grammont Memoirs . The sisters of the Duchess of Berwick were , Charlotte , married to ...
... master of the household to Charles : their mother was Lady Sophia Stewart , sister to the beautiful Duchess of Richmond , so conspicuous in the Grammont Memoirs . The sisters of the Duchess of Berwick were , Charlotte , married to ...
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... master died : * With whom , as appears from the Memoirs , the Count , while residing in London , maintained the closest intimacy . St. Evremont was de- lighted with his wit , vivacity , and latitude of principle : he called him his hero ...
... master died : * With whom , as appears from the Memoirs , the Count , while residing in London , maintained the closest intimacy . St. Evremont was de- lighted with his wit , vivacity , and latitude of principle : he called him his hero ...
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... master lost their labour in endeavouring to teach me Latin . Old Brinon , who served me both as valet - de - chambre and governor , in vain threatened to acquaint my mother . I only studied when I pleased , that is to say , seldom or ...
... master lost their labour in endeavouring to teach me Latin . Old Brinon , who served me both as valet - de - chambre and governor , in vain threatened to acquaint my mother . I only studied when I pleased , that is to say , seldom or ...
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... master of this hotel was as big as a hogshead , his name Cerise ; a Swiss by birth , a poisoner by profession , and a thief by custom . He shewed me into a tolerably neat room , and desired to know , whether I pleased to sup by myself ...
... master of this hotel was as big as a hogshead , his name Cerise ; a Swiss by birth , a poisoner by profession , and a thief by custom . He shewed me into a tolerably neat room , and desired to know , whether I pleased to sup by myself ...
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... in- trepidity and address have been the cause of taking others since , even under the eye of his master , as we shall see in the sequel of these memoirs . CHAPTER IV . MILITARY glory is at most but one COUNT GRAMMONT . 55.
... in- trepidity and address have been the cause of taking others since , even under the eye of his master , as we shall see in the sequel of these memoirs . CHAPTER IV . MILITARY glory is at most but one COUNT GRAMMONT . 55.
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Página 361 - In the first rank of these did Zimri' stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 446 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and...
Página 362 - Beggared by fools whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laughed himself from Court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief...
Página 362 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Página 337 - Champion that would fight with him ;" and with these words, the Champion flings down his gauntlet, and all this he do three times in his going up towards the King's table. To which, when he is come, the King drinks to him, and then sends him the cup which is of gold, and he drinks it off, and then rides back again with the cup in his hand. I went from table to table to see the Bishops and all others at their dinner, and was infinitely pleased with it. And at the Lords...
Página 407 - He had, most undoubtedly, an excellent good plain understanding, with sound judgment. But these, alone, would probably have raised him but something higher than they found him; which was page to King James the Second's Queen.
Página 361 - When this extraordinary man, with the figure and genius of Alcibiades, could equally charm the presbyterian Fairfax, and the dissolute Charles ; when he alike ridiculed that witty king, and his solemn chancellor ; when he plotted the ruin of his country with a cabal of bad ministers ; or, equally unprincipled, supported its cause with bad patriots ; one laments that such parts should have been devoid of every virtue.
Página 406 - Of all the men I ever knew in my life (and I knew him extremely well), the late Duke of Marlborough possessed the graces in the highest degree, not to say engrossed them...
Página 399 - The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation ; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me. But my wife standing near her with two or three black patches on, and well dressed, did seem to me much handsomer than she.
Página 361 - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long, But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.