 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
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 662 páginas
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 20002. in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust!' This is the picture and the moral put before... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1870 - 502 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 ! ' The following curious observations on the... | |
 | 1870 - 972 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 of astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust." The Harleian Miscellany, of 1G68, has the following... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1870 - 362 páginas
...great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 gold before them : upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust.' I suspect that Evelyn was far less shocked... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1870 - 788 páginas
...Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 468 PROCLAMATION OF JAMES II. FUNERAL OF CHARLK II. 2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust l It was enjoyn'd that those who put... | |
 | George Steinman Steinman - 1871 - 274 páginas
...and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing lovesongs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the...astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust ! " When at the hour of death, the King, we are told by Evelyn, "spake to the Duke of York to be kind... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 470 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!" A short time before his death Charles recommended... | |
 | 1876 - 600 páginas
...was witness of; the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarin, &c., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery,...which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days afterwards all was in the dust.' And yet in the midst of such hideous and... | |
 | Belgravia - 1876 - 562 páginas
...was witness of; the King sitting and toying with his concubineSjPortsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarin, &c., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery,...which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days afterwards all was in the dust.' stances an orphan girl succeeded in keeping... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1877 - 542 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... | |
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