 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...  Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second - Página 446de Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1846 - 546 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1835 - 428 páginas
...courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 20007. in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust !" SKETCH. (For the Parterre). 'T was in her... | |
 | 1835 - 428 páginas
...courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000Л in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust !" SKETCH. (For the Parterre). *T was in her... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least L.2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust ! " 1 Our friend Pepys did not aspire at quite... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1837 - 316 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at bassett round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them : upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Sii daya after was all in the dust."—Memoirs, vol. i' p. 585. had taken a fancy... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 696 páginas
...of; — the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious...two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust."* The duke of York, who now ascended the throne... | |
 | 1849 - 468 páginas
...whilst about twenty of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Bitfuet round a largo table, a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them...which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. SIX DAYS AFTER, ALL WAS IN THE DUST." L. PLACES. BY CALDER CAMPBELL. Give me a place... | |
 | 1841 - 764 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset, round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days after, all was in dust." Hortense retired to Chelsea, where Lysons says... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 20001. in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust." Charles had long been suspected to be in his... | |
 | 1844 - 490 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust." The exemplary Evelyn might, however, well have... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 436 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust !" His daughter was now in her nineteenth... | |
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