 | battle of worcester - 1859 - 86 Seiten
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table — a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them — upon which, two gentlemen who were with me made reflections in astonishment. Six days after all was dust." Such were the last days of Charles the Second.... | |
 | Charles Campbell - 1860 - 772 Seiten
...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." Rochester, in his epigram, described... | |
 | Charles Campbell - 1860 - 766 Seiten
...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/' Rochester, in his epigram, described... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1861 - 470 Seiten
...Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, ifcc. ; a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, while about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute...before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me held up their hands in astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust !" James II., during his short... | |
 | Charles Abel Heurtley - 1862 - 326 Seiten
...those who would teach you to undervalue it, or to divert it from its legitimate purposes. Consecrate gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...them; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust!" Diary, vol. iii. p. 137. Feb. 1684.5.... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1862 - 446 Seiten
...twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bauk 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 ia the dust It was enjoined that those who put... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 Seiten
...' which he was witness of; 'the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs in...them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made strange reflections. Six days after, all was in the dust' Burnet tells us that the King ' ate little... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 516 Seiten
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 20CKM. 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, Feb., 1685. that Prince... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 662 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1868 - 412 Seiten
...courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made strange reflections. " Six days after all was In the dnst I " Anything more startling ard solemn than... | |
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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 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen... 
