 | William Hone - 1841 - 840 pages
...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 then; upon which two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days after... | |
 | James Aikman - 1842 - 604 pages
...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 £2000 in gold before them, upon which the gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment." Mem. vol. ip 585. parish churches,... | |
 | James Aikman - 1842 - 586 pages
...glorious gallery, whjle about seventy 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 the gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment." Mem. vol. ip 585. parish churches,... | |
 | 1844 - 490 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...astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust." The exemplary Evelyn might, however, well have been asked, " What doest thou here?" At that very moment,... | |
 | 1907 - 848 pages
...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...astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust. But Evelyn's pictures of the life of his day have other figures than kings and queens in them. Many... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 436 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 reflexions with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust !" His daughter was now in her nineteenth... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 484 pages
...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...them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after all was in the dust." On the deposition of James four... | |
 | England - 1845 - 478 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...made reflections with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust." The exemplary Evelyn might, however, well have been asked, " What doesfc thou... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1845 - 862 pages
...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 a reflection with astonishment ; six days after, all was in the dust." The king died in the faith of... | |
 | William Howitt - 1846 - 376 pages
...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...which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections. Six days after was all in the dust ! " CHAPTER XV. THE last and the worst of the Stuarts now mounted... | |
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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... 
