 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 460 páginas
...description of Whitehall as he beheld it on the Sunday preceding. " I can never forget," he writes, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...(it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine,... | |
 | George Steinman Steinman - 1871 - 274 páginas
...get," writes Evelyn on February 8, 1684-5, when recording in his journal the death of Charles II., " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...(it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine,... | |
 | 1873 - 584 páginas
...literature. Evelyn says, speaking of the court of the late King Charles the Second : " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...(it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying- with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine,... | |
 | John Reynell Morell - 1873 - 354 páginas
...everywhere was found corruption and iniquity. "Never," says a well-known writer, John Evelyn, " shall I forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming...(it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of at Whitehall. Another week," he adds, "and all was dust." The public and private demoralization... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1895 - 314 páginas
...life of Charles II. is not new to any one, but must come in here : " I can never forget," he says, "the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming...(it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 656 páginas
...also invited them. 1685, 13 Feb. — I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profancnesses, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, — it being Sunday eve'g, — w11 this day se'nnight I was witness of — the King sitting and toying with his concubines,... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1898 - 518 páginas
...DEVIL JOINEI/ IX ONE. (British Mastum.) distinguished circles. " I can never forget." wrote Evelyn, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...(it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the king sitting and toying with his concubines the duchesses of Portsmouth, Cleveland,... | |
 | Tiemen De Vries - 1899 - 734 páginas
...Karel I. BAYLEE beschrüft een scène aan het hof van Karel II, uit Evelyn, als volgt: „I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...(it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of. The King, sitting with Portsmouth, Cleveland and Mazarene, a Prench boy, singing... | |
 | 1901 - 418 páginas
...England, which made her universally beloved. Thus concluded this sad and not joyful day. I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...(it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarin,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 422 páginas
...also invited them. 1685, 13 Feb. — I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profanenesses, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, — it being Sunday eve'g, — wh this day se'nnight I was witness of — the King sitting and toying with his concubines,... | |
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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,... 
