Red-letter Days of Samuel PepysSidgwick and Jackson, 1910 - 299 Seiten |
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April August August 17 Batelier Batten begun betimes better bless body Boswell brought called chamber church clothes comes confess Court Coventry dancing dined dinner discourse dress drink Duke of York eyes fear February February 14 fell fire garden give gone hand hath hear heard Hewer honour January January 20 July King King's house Knipp Lady Lady Castlemaine late lodgings Lord Brouncker Lord Sandwich Lord's day Lordship maid March March 26 Mercer merry mightily mighty pretty mind mirth morning musick musique never night November November 22 o'clock October 19 Parliament PEPYS PEPYS'S plague play pleasant pleased pleasure poor Queen SAMUEL PEPYS September sermon sing Sir William staid strange Street supper talk tells thence things to-day told took coach trouble walked Westminster wherein White Hall wife William Batten woman
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Seite 8 - Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.
Seite 150 - This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and
Seite 161 - I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home : seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as pitch and tar, in Thames Street; and warehouses of oyle, and wines, and brandy, and other things.
Seite 53 - But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.
Seite 72 - In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch home my wife, I stopped at the great Coffee-house 1 there, where I never was before : where Dryden, the poet, I knew at Cambridge, and all the wits of the town, and Harris the player, and Mr. Hoole, of our College. And, had I had time then, or could at other times, it will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is very witty and pleasant discourse.
Seite 95 - ... now, all otherwise: then, the Queen seldom and the King never would come; now, not the King only for state, but all civil people do think they may come as well as any.
Seite 156 - I went away and walked to Greenwich, in my way seeing a coffin with a dead body therein, dead of the plague, lying in an open close belonging to Coome farme, which was carried out last night, and the parish have not appointed any body to bury it ; but only set a watch there day and night, that nobody should go thither or come thence : this disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs.
Seite 163 - So near the fire as we could for smoke; and all over the Thames, with one's face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of fire-drops.
Seite 76 - I had for them, after oysters, at first course a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef. Next a great dish of roasted fowl, cost me about 30s., and a tart ; and then fruit and cheese.
Seite 61 - Soon as ever the clock struck one, I kissed my wife in the kitchen by the fireside, wishing her a merry new year.