Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S.: To which is Subjoined the Private Correspondence Between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and Between Sir Edward Hyde, Afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, Volumen 2H. G. Bohn, 1862 |
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... built next to it . 24th . Dined with Lord Cornbury , now made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen ; who kept a very honourable table . 1st June . Being in my garden at six o'clock in the evening , and hearing the great guns go thick off , I ...
... built next to it . 24th . Dined with Lord Cornbury , now made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen ; who kept a very honourable table . 1st June . Being in my garden at six o'clock in the evening , and hearing the great guns go thick off , I ...
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... built by the City to supply that which was burnt by accident some time since ; the King , Lord Mayor and Sheriffs , being there with great banquet . 11th . Trinity Monday , after a sermon , applied to the re- meeting of the Corporation ...
... built by the City to supply that which was burnt by accident some time since ; the King , Lord Mayor and Sheriffs , being there with great banquet . 11th . Trinity Monday , after a sermon , applied to the re- meeting of the Corporation ...
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... built ab origine for an effect in perspective , in regard of the height ; but I was , with Dr. Wren , quite of another judgment , and so we entered it ; we plumbed the uprights in several places . When we came to the steeple , it was ...
... built ab origine for an effect in perspective , in regard of the height ; but I was , with Dr. Wren , quite of another judgment , and so we entered it ; we plumbed the uprights in several places . When we came to the steeple , it was ...
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... built entirely about it , had they taken fire and attacked the White Tower , where the magazine of powder lay , would undoubtedly not only have beaten down and destroyed all the bridge , but sunk and torn the vessels 1 Dr. Offley was ...
... built entirely about it , had they taken fire and attacked the White Tower , where the magazine of powder lay , would undoubtedly not only have beaten down and destroyed all the bridge , but sunk and torn the vessels 1 Dr. Offley was ...
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... built , which had not one letter of it defaced ! It was astonishing to see what im- mense stones the heat had in a manner calcined , so that all the ornaments , columns , friezes , capitals , and projectures of massy Portland stone ...
... built , which had not one letter of it defaced ! It was astonishing to see what im- mense stones the heat had in a manner calcined , so that all the ornaments , columns , friezes , capitals , and projectures of massy Portland stone ...
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Página 316 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Página 210 - 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 round a large table — a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them — upon which, two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Página 210 - 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 2 - ... carts, &c., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away.
Página 2 - ... hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed that at last one was not able to approach it; so that they were forced to stand still and let the flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length and one in breadth.
Página 51 - Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between . . . and Mrs. Nelly, f as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and . . . standing on the green walk under it. I was heartily sorry at this scene.
Página 352 - ... There is a house full of people, and right nasty. The Czar lies next your library, and dines in the parlour next your study. He dines at ten o'clock and six at night ; is very seldom at home a whole day. Very often in the King's yard, or by water, dressed in several dresses. The King is expected there this day ; the best parlour is pretty clean for him to be entertained in ; the King pays for all he has.
Página 5 - Sir Thomas Gresham's statue, though fallen from its niche in the Royal Exchange, remained entire, when all those of the kings since the Conquest were broken to pieces...
Página 197 - There was so great a concourse of people with their children to be touched for the Evil, that six or seven were crushed to death by pressing at the chirurgeon's door for tickets.
Página 140 - ... altogether illiterate), and for breeding up so many of his children to be able artists. I held up the pall with three knights, who did him that honour, and he was worthy of it.