 | John Evelyn - 1848 - 322 páginas
...great courtiers and other diflblute perfons were at Baflet round a large table, a bank of at leaft 2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with aftonifhment. Six days after was all in the duft." Evelyns Diary, Feb. 1684-5. In the... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1848 - 324 páginas
...great courtiers and other diffolute perfons were at Baflet round a large table, a bank of at leaft 2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with aftonimment. Six days after was all in the duft." Evelyn's Diary, Feb. 1684-5. In the... | |
 | William Andrew Chatto - 1848 - 436 páginas
...Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, wliilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset1 round a large table ; a bank of at least £2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1849 - 472 páginas
...Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, while about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute...before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me held up their hands in astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust !" James II., during his short... | |
 | 1850 - 540 páginas
...Cleaveland, and Mazarine &c., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons...them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust."* From the remembrance of such disgraceful... | |
 | 1907 - 684 páginas
...Sunday evening, 25 Jan., 1685, sitting in the gallery at Whitehall, "whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers, and other dissolute persons were at Basset^ round a large table, a bank of at least 2,000/. n gold before them." Macaulay refers to t in his ' History of England,' vol. ip 431. Evelyn... | |
 | 1925 - 996 páginas
.... singing love-songs, in that glorious gallery, I whilst about twenty of the great courtiers | end other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large...2000 in . gold before them; upon which two gentlemen I who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after, was all in the • dust. There... | |
 | 1850 - 806 páginas
...Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, reigned triumphant; a French boy stood by, singing love songs, " whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other...at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 3,000/. in gold before them." .... Six days after, all was in the dust 1 This was the last Sabbath... | |
 | 1851 - 752 páginas
...and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, £c. a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the...at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2,0001. in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made strange reflection^. Six... | |
 | John Lavicount Anderdon, F.A. Clarke - 1851 - 576 páginas
...Hawkins's Life of Ken, p. 21. f Ibid. p. z2. J Ibid. p. 5. round a large table, a bank of at leaft £ 2,000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with aftonimment. Six days after all was in the duft."* Yes, — within one fhort week from his confecration,... | |
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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... 
