 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
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 684 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 20001. in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 662 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 20002. in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment.... | |
 | 1868 - 438 Seiten
...Mazarine. A French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, while about seventy of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them." It being Sunday! If thus with the shepherd, how with the sheep ? Let... | |
 | 1868 - 412 Seiten
...&c., &c.; a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the greit 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. "... | |
 | Charles Collins - 1911 - 374 Seiten
...Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, while about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2,000 pounds in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with... | |
 | 1912 - 572 Seiten
...in Evelyn's ' Diary ' under the date of 4 Feb., 1684/5 :— ''....about 20 of the grcatc court iers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them. CLIFTON ROBBINS. farV« H' *,*9 that this *amc resembled laro, and was first... | |
 | Hugh Robert Eardley Childers - 1913 - 412 Seiten
...(Frangois Duperrier) 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 .£2,000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment.... | |
 | Hugh Noel Williams - 1915 - 442 Seiten
...Mazarin, etc., a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, while 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... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1915 - 346 Seiten
...Mazarin, etc., 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 who were with me made reflections with astonishment.... | |
 | Estelle Frances Ward - 1915 - 432 Seiten
...love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other disolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them.' l During the evening the King complained of illness, and early next morning... | |
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