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... The Life of Mrs. Godolphin - Page xvby John Evelyn - 1848 - 291 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1818 - 606 pages
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table; a bank of at least rf'-iOOO in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six davs after, all was in the dust !' He deplored his loss, he said, with all his soul,... | |
| 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 - 622 pages
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table; a bank of at least =£"3000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust!' He deplored his loss, he said, with all his soul,... | |
| 1819 - 630 pages
...great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a lar^e table ; a bank of at least £2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexion* with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust!' He deplored his loss, he said,... | |
| 1819 - 552 pages
...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. Six days after all was in the dust!' , In the year 1694 he left Sayes... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...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 astonishment. Six days, qfter, "was all in dust!" From this moment, the court of England... | |
| Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 450 pages
...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 was all in the dust !" The conduct of James completed... | |
| Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 454 pages
...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 was all in the dust !" The conduct of James completed... | |
| Horace Smith - 1826 - 418 pages
...greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at bassett 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 was all in the dust."—Memoirs, vol. 1. p. 585. 1 180... | |
| John Evelyn - 1827 - 458 pages
...greate 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 reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust! It was enjoyn'd that those who put on mourning should... | |
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