 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 Benares magazine - Page 111850Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...Cleaveland, and Mazarine, 8tc. a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons...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.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 600 pages
...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...made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust !' He deplored his loss, he said, with nil his soul, for many respects as well... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 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...made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust!' He deplored his loss, he said, with all his soul, for many respects as well as... | |
 | 1818 - 574 pages
...persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them, upon which 2 gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust!" (Vol. ip 54-9.) This was on the Sunday, and on the next day his Majesty was attacked by apoplexy. His... | |
 | Lady Rachel Russell - 1819 - 410 pages
...and " Mazarin, &c. a French boy singing love songs in that glo•' rjous gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers, " and other dissolute persons,...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... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons...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.... | |
 | Lady Rachel Russell, Mary Barry - Nobility - 1819 - 410 pages
...and " Mazarin, &c. a French boy singing love songs in that glo•' rious gajlery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers, " and other dissolute persons,...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... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1819 - 808 pages
...gallery, whilst abonte 2O of y* greate courtiers and other rlissolute persons were .it Busiet round n large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them, upon wk two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...Cleaveland, 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 round a lar^e table ; a bank of at least £2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 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. 1807. — WILLIAM STEVENS... | |
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