 | John Evelyn - 1906 - 510 pages
...years and now is about, about Gardenage ; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but...colour, however, and look very finely, better than any herbal. In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1906 - 488 pages
...making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be.2 He showed me his Hortus Hyemalis ; 8 leaves laid up in a book of several plants kept dry,...colour, however, and look very finely, better than any herbal. In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1906 - 488 pages
...years and now is about, about Gardenage ; * which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be.2 He showed me his Hortus Hyemalis ; 3 leaves laid up in a book of several plants kept dry, which... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1909 - 396 pages
...and now is 164 165 about, about Gardenage ; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but...conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his Hortus Hyematis ; leaves laid up in a book of several plants kept dry, which preserve colour, however, and... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1906 - 688 pages
...years and now is about, about Gardenage ; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but...colour, however, and look very finely, better than an Herball. In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1916 - 410 pages
...1665. By water to Deptford, and there made a visit to Mr. Evelyn. . . . He read me part of a play1 or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. 2 Harris was Sir Joslin Jolly; Nokes, Sir Oliver Cockwood; Smith, Courtall; Young, Freeman; Mrs. Shadwell,... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1923 - 366 pages
...years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but...colour, however, and look very finely, better than any Herball. In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness;... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1924 - 302 pages
...a most excellent person he is." 30 Yet even here the remorseless eye and pen will work: "He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be."31 While, over against these estimable characters there are the foolish and the wicked, made just... | |
 | Edward Gordon Craig - 1925 - 248 pages
...Diary is three years later, 5 November, 1665. He had gone to see Evelyn, and Evelyn had read to him "part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be." Yet Evelyn is silent as to his own "play or two." In 1663, on 5 February, he goes to see The Wild Gallant... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 1258 pages
...years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but...colour, however, and look very finely, better than any Herball. In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness;... | |
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He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. 
