Memoirs of the Court of Charles the SecondH.G. Bohn, 1859 - 546 páginas |
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... resolved to renounce the church for the salvation of my soul , upon condition , however , that I keep my abbacy . ' Nei- ther the remonstrances nor authority of my brother could induce me to change my resolution ; and he was forced to ...
... resolved to renounce the church for the salvation of my soul , upon condition , however , that I keep my abbacy . ' Nei- ther the remonstrances nor authority of my brother could induce me to change my resolution ; and he was forced to ...
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... resolved to win four or five hundred pistoles of him before I go to bed . ' With these words I turned him out , strictly enjoining him not to return , or in any manner to disturb us . " The game being done , the little Swiss unbuttoned ...
... resolved to win four or five hundred pistoles of him before I go to bed . ' With these words I turned him out , strictly enjoining him not to return , or in any manner to disturb us . " The game being done , the little Swiss unbuttoned ...
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... resolved to follow his instructions in love , as he had done his advice in play . Mademoiselle de Saint - Germain was in the bloom of youth ; her eyes were small , but very bright and sparkling , and like her hair were black ; her ...
... resolved to follow his instructions in love , as he had done his advice in play . Mademoiselle de Saint - Germain was in the bloom of youth ; her eyes were small , but very bright and sparkling , and like her hair were black ; her ...
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... resolved that it should not be paid to his wife , the Swiss had received his orders , and had almost been beaten for receiving the present which had been left . The partridges , however , were immediately sent back ; and Matta , without ...
... resolved that it should not be paid to his wife , the Swiss had received his orders , and had almost been beaten for receiving the present which had been left . The partridges , however , were immediately sent back ; and Matta , without ...
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... enter into any farther explanation ; since he refused to cede , for her sake , so trifling an objection : from this instant she resolved to have done with him . far- The Chevalier de Grammont had taken leave of his 66 MEMOIRS OF.
... enter into any farther explanation ; since he refused to cede , for her sake , so trifling an objection : from this instant she resolved to have done with him . far- The Chevalier de Grammont had taken leave of his 66 MEMOIRS OF.
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Página 362 - He laugh'd himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel: Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
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 - 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 435 - Majesty sitting under his state in the banqueting house, the chirurgeons cause the sick to be brought, or led, up to the throne, where they kneeling, the King strokes their faces, or cheeks with both his hands at once, at which instant a chaplain in his formalities says, " He put his hands upon them, and he healed them.
Página 403 - That the stage is now by his pains a thousand times better and more glorious than ever heretofore. Now, waxcandles, and many of them; then, not above 3 Ibs. of tallow; now, all things civil, no rudeness anywhere; then, as in a bear-garden...
Página 442 - I have a mind to a new wife; but for all that, I will not see an innocent woman abused...
Página 338 - Now, after all this, I can say that, besides the pleasure of the sight of these glorious things, I may now shut my eyes against any other objects, nor for the future trouble myself to see things of state and showe, as being sure never to see the like again in this world.
Página 348 - And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw: and did me good to look at them.
Página 337 - ... 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. At last 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...