Memoirs of the Court of Charles the SecondH.G. Bohn, 1859 - 546 páginas |
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... thing which may not unhesitatingly be put into the hands of the most fastidious ; and they have some evidence of his wish to deserve such confidence by the course now pursued . GWYNN 2 . 1 OR , CONTEMPO FROM THE HENRY BOHN'S EXTRA VOLUME .
... thing which may not unhesitatingly be put into the hands of the most fastidious ; and they have some evidence of his wish to deserve such confidence by the course now pursued . GWYNN 2 . 1 OR , CONTEMPO FROM THE HENRY BOHN'S EXTRA VOLUME .
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... thing more to trouble your lordship with at present , concerning Colonel Anthony Hamilton , to get him a commission to com- * It is not to be forgotten , that , at this time , John Churchill , after- wards Duke of Marlborough , served ...
... thing more to trouble your lordship with at present , concerning Colonel Anthony Hamilton , to get him a commission to com- * It is not to be forgotten , that , at this time , John Churchill , after- wards Duke of Marlborough , served ...
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... thing was distorted , and rendered absurd and preposterous . " Le bel air de la cour est d'aller à la jolie maison , que le roi a donnée à la Comtesse de Gramont dans le Parc de Versailles . C'est tellement la mode , que c'est une honte ...
... thing was distorted , and rendered absurd and preposterous . " Le bel air de la cour est d'aller à la jolie maison , que le roi a donnée à la Comtesse de Gramont dans le Parc de Versailles . C'est tellement la mode , que c'est une honte ...
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... finished composition . Besides , inde- pendent of every thing else , what man would so outrage all decorum , as to call himself the admiration of the age ? for so is Grammont extolled in the Memoirs , with a variety of ANTHONY HAMILTON .
... finished composition . Besides , inde- pendent of every thing else , what man would so outrage all decorum , as to call himself the admiration of the age ? for so is Grammont extolled in the Memoirs , with a variety of ANTHONY HAMILTON .
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... thing falling under her department . This reflection embarrassed us ; and we were meditating what turn should be given to the passage , when behold ! there appeared at once , in the midst of the room , a form that surprised without ...
... thing falling under her department . This reflection embarrassed us ; and we were meditating what turn should be given to the passage , when behold ! there appeared at once , in the midst of the room , a form that surprised without ...
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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...