I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, 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... Periodical Criticism - Seite 114von Walter Scott - 1835Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 Seiten
...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 round a large table; a bank of at least afSOOO in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment.... | |
| Lady Rachel Russell, Mary Barry - 1819 - 410 Seiten
...&c. a French boy singing love songs in that glo•' rious gajlery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers, " and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large " table, a bank of at least 2000l. in gold before them. Six " days after, was all in the dust !" — Evelyn, vol. ip 549. (7) The... | |
| 1819 - 552 Seiten
...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 round a large table; a bank of at least ^20OO in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment.... | |
| Lady Rachel Russell - 1819 - 410 Seiten
...&c. a French boy singing love songs in that glo•' rjous gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers, " and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large " table, a bank of at least 20001. in gpld before them. Six " days after, was all in the dust !" — Evelyn, vol. ip 549. (7) The... | |
| 1820 - 422 Seiten
...witnesse of, the King sitting with about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons, who were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; six days after was all in the dust !' *7. 1802. — MARGATE HOY LOST. *7.... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 426 Seiten
...Mazarine, 8tc., a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of, at least, two thousand in gold before them * Marquis of Halifax. Character of Charles II. t Burnet, Six days... | |
| 1823 - 428 Seiten
...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 round a large table, a bank of, at least, two thousand in gold before them Marquis of Halifax. Character of Charles II. f Burnet, Six days after,... | |
| 1823 - 428 Seiten
...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 round a large table, a bank of, at least, two thousand in gold before them * Marquis of Halifax. Character of Charles II. t Burnet. Six days... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 Seiten
...Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing, songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great 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... | |
| Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 450 Seiten
...Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst above twenty of the greate courtiers and other dissolute...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... | |
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