 I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines,...  Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, of ... - Page 375by Richard Warner - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1858 - 584 pages
...which Sunday was disposed of by the virtuous King and his courtiers. " I can never forget," he says, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were a total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of;... | |
 | George Long Duyckinck - 1859 - 338 pages
...luxurious dallying, and profaneness." Looking back on the same scene a few days after, he continues, " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...of God (it being Sunday evening), which this• day seven-night I was witness of: the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,... | |
 | battle of worcester - 1859 - 86 pages
...licentiousness as on the Sunday evening, which Evelyn thus graphically describes : — " I never can forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...(it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight 1 was witness of: the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine,... | |
 | Guild of st. Alban - 1872 - 596 pages
...very time of Ken's consecration. Evelyn writes in his diary on that day of what he saw at the court: " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness; as it were a total forgetfulness of GOD! * * * the king sitting * * * with his concubines, Portsmouth,... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - Biography - 1910 - 548 pages
...inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetf nllnesse of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day sen'night I was witnesse of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine,... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - Biography - 1910 - 540 pages
...inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetf ullnesse of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day sen'night I was witnesse of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleavelaml, and Mazarine,... | |
 | Cyril Brett - Great Britain - 1910 - 416 pages
...inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as.it were totall forgetfullnesse of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witnesse of the King sitting and toying etc., his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine,... | |
 | Charles Collins - Actors - 1911 - 374 pages
...passage in Evelyn's diary bears witness: "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness...Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of — the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, etc., a French... | |
 | Painting - 1911 - 60 pages
...inexpressible luxury and prophanenesse, gaming and all dis-soluteness, and as it were toial forgett'ulnesse of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witnesse of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine,... | |
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