 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
 | Samuel Pepys - 1877 - 522 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2ooo/. in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust." — Diary, February, 1685. 2 See... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1878 - 450 páginas
...great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset 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. Six days after, was all in the dust It was enjoined that those who put on mourning... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset 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. Six days after all was in the dust." who continued to make it his principal residence,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 532 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset 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. Six days after all was in the dust." who continued to make it his principal residence,... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 764 páginas
...other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand [pounds] in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexion* with atlonithmtnt. Six days after was all in the du»t." — Evelyn '• Diary. BAOFORD.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 860 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset, round a large table, a bank of at least £2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made strange reections. Six days after, all was in the dust.' Burnet tells us that the King ' ate little... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at lenst £:0004n gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust. Of the following extracts from the ' Diary,'... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 páginas
...other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand pounds in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after all was in the dust." The moral here is not difficult to decipher.... | |
 | English history - 1881 - 888 páginas
...great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset 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. Six days after was all in the dust ! It was enjoined that those who put on mourning... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...courtiers and olher dissolute persons were at tassel round a large table, a bank of at least £MX) in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust/ And a sketch of the Great Fire: 'td Sept.—... | |
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