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" 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... "
Historic Ninepins: A Book of Curiosities, where Old and Young May Read ... - Page 172
by John Timbs - 1869 - 348 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

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 pages
...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....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

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, for many respects...
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Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell,

Lady Rachel Russell - 1819 - 410 pages
...Mazarin, &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...
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 13

1819 - 552 pages
...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....
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Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell

Lady Rachel Russell, Mary Barry - 1819 - 410 pages
...Mazarin, &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...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1819 - 630 pages
...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,...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1820 - 422 pages
...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....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 29

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 pages
...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...made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust !' . The circumstances which ensued while they roused the spiiit of the nation...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...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,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...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...
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