Memoirs of the Court of Charles the SecondH.G. Bohn, 1853 - 546 páginas |
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... Attend ! —And thou , too , lend thine aid , Chaulieu ! on whom , in raptur'd hour , Phoebus breath'd energy and power ; Come both , and each a stanza place , The structure that we raise to grace ; To gild our heavy labours o'er , Your ...
... Attend ! —And thou , too , lend thine aid , Chaulieu ! on whom , in raptur'd hour , Phoebus breath'd energy and power ; Come both , and each a stanza place , The structure that we raise to grace ; To gild our heavy labours o'er , Your ...
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... attend him ; And may he , like a grateful prince , Avail him of the hint they lend him ; Live long as Grammont's age , and longer , Then learn his art still to grow younger . Here ceas'd the ghostly Norman sage , A clerk whom we as well ...
... attend him ; And may he , like a grateful prince , Avail him of the hint they lend him ; Live long as Grammont's age , and longer , Then learn his art still to grow younger . Here ceas'd the ghostly Norman sage , A clerk whom we as well ...
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... attend me as valet - de - chambre . was likewise to discharge the office of governor and equerry , being , perhaps , the only Gascon who was ever possessed of so much gravity and ill - temper . He passed his word for my good behaviour ...
... attend me as valet - de - chambre . was likewise to discharge the office of governor and equerry , being , perhaps , the only Gascon who was ever possessed of so much gravity and ill - temper . He passed his word for my good behaviour ...
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... attended by eight or ten horsemen . Therefore , how- ever he may be provoked at his loss , it is proper to be in such a situation as not to dread his resentment . " " Embrace me , my dear Chevalier , " said Matta , holding his sides and ...
... attended by eight or ten horsemen . Therefore , how- ever he may be provoked at his loss , it is proper to be in such a situation as not to dread his resentment . " " Embrace me , my dear Chevalier , " said Matta , holding his sides and ...
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... attended to them . He per- ceived this , and quitted his mistress to inquire what she had done with Matta . " I ! " said she , " I have done nothing with him ; but I don't know what he would have done with me , if I had been obliging ...
... attended to them . He per- ceived this , and quitted his mistress to inquire what she had done with Matta . " I ! " said she , " I have done nothing with him ; but I don't know what he would have done with me , if I had been obliging ...
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Página 336 - ... all the officers of all kinds, so much as the very fiddlers, in red vests. At last comes in the Dean and Prebendaries of Westminster, with the Bishops (many of them in cloth of gold copes), and after them the Nobility, all in their Parliament robes, which was a most magnificent sight.
Página 435 - EVIL! according to custom, thus: his 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 337 - Glynne, whose horse fell upon him yesterday, and is like to kill him, which people do please themselves to see how just God is to punish the rogue at such a time as this : he being now one of the King's Serjeants, and rode in the cavalcade with Maynard, to whom people wish the same fortune.
Página 492 - And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee ; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
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 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 439 - Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies.
Página 438 - He said, it was a wicked thing to make a poor lady miserable, only because she was his wife, and had no children by him, which was no fault of hers.
Página 442 - In another passage Oates's personal appearance is thus described. — ' He was a low man, of an ill cut, very short neck, and his visage and features were most particular. His mouth was the centre of his face ; and a compass there would sweep his nose, forehead, and chin, within the perimeter.