 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 662 pages
...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...astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust!' This is the picture and the moral put before the spectator's eyes by Mr. Frith. The canvas is full... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 684 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...with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust ! ' This is the picture and the moral put before the spectator's eyes by Mr. Frith. The canvas is full... | |
 | 1868 - 412 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 strange reflections. " Six days after all was In the dnst I " Anything more startling ard solemn than... | |
 | 1870 - 972 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 of astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust." The Harleian Miscellany, of 1G68, has the following... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1870 - 362 pages
...great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 gold before them : upon which two gentlemen who were...astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust.' I suspect that Evelyn was far less shocked at this scene than lie imagined himself to have been, when... | |
 | Thomas Longueville - 1904 - 654 pages
...glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them." The next morning the Court had something more serious to think of. King Charles II. fell on the floor... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1905 - 488 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 reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust ! " (Evelyn's Diary, Feb. 1685). xii.... | |
 | Algernon Graves - 1905 - 458 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 reflexions with astonishment. Six days after, was all in the dust . — Evelyn's Diary. 1868. 87 Before... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1906 - 536 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...astonishment. Six days after, was all in the dust. It was enjoined that those who put on mourning should wear it as for a father, in the most solemn manner.... | |
 | Richard Davey - 1906 - 718 pages
...glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold...them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust ! " That this monarch, who had allowed... | |
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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... 
