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,... Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second - Página 446de Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1846 - 546 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Walter Wilson - 1830 - 562 páginas
...disgusting scene which took place but a few days before his death. " I can never forget," says he, "the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming...forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se-night I was witness to ; the king, sitting and toying with his concubines Portsmouth, Cleveland,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...of Charles II. on the Sunday preceding his death, February 6, 1085: The Last Sunday of Charles IT. 1 hy own solemn s\ 0 nymph reserved, while now the...bright-haired »an Sits'in yon western tent, whose cloudy sk forgetfulneps of God — it being Sunday evening— which this day se'ennight I was witness of— the... | |
| Robert Vaughan - 1831 - 560 páginas
...of the manner in which he passed his last Sabbath on earth, is not from the pen of an adversary. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - 1831 - 372 páginas
...inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total fortgetfullnesse of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witnesse of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine,... | |
| 1831 - 542 páginas
...inexpressible luxury and prophanenesse, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulnesse of God (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witnesse of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine,... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 852 páginas
...died king Charles II. ;" and a week after the proclamation at Whitehall, of James II. he adds — " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness... | |
| Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 páginas
...to the beggar who lies on the dunghill. On the previous Sunday, the court had exhibited a scene of " inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all...dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God." " Six days after all was dust." He remarks in another place — " God was incensed to make his reign... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 418 páginas
...inexpressible luxury and profanenesse, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulnesse of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day s'ennight...sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy sing, ing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about... | |
| 1835 - 428 páginas
...King Charles II., of a robust constitution, and in ail appearance promising a long life ! I never can forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming...day sen'night I was witness- of, the king sitting toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. A French boy singing love songs,... | |
| 1835 - 428 páginas
...King Charles II., of a robust constitution, and in all appearance promising a long life ! I never can forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming...this day sen'night I was witness of, the king sitting toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. A French boy singing love songs,... | |
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