The Life of Mrs. Godolphin

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W. Pickering, 1848 - 291 страници
 

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Страница 243 - For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree ; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb...
Страница 259 - What mad freaks the Mayds of Honour at Court have : that Mrs. Jenings,1 one of the Duchess's maids, the other day dressed herself like an orange wench, and went up and down and cried oranges ; till, falling down, or by some accident, her fine shoes were discerned, and she put to a great deal of shame...
Страница 236 - ... officers who were with me, (except my Lord Wilmot, with whom a place was agreed upon for our meeting at London, if we escaped, and...
Страница xv - 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 round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Страница 293 - Brampton Rectory: or, the Lesson of Life. Second Edition. 8s. 6d. Compton Merivale: another Leaf from the Lesson of Life. By the Author of Brampton Rectory . 8s.
Страница 152 - My deare, not knowing how God Allmighty may deale with me, I think it my...
Страница 98 - ... amidst all this pomp and serious impertinence, whilst the rest were acting, and that her part was sometymes to goe off, as the scenes required, into the tireing roome, where severall Ladyes her companions were railing with the Gallants trifleingly enough till they were called to reenter, she vnder pretence of conning her next part, was retired into a Corner, reading a booke of devotion, without att all concerning herselfe or mingling with the young Company ; as if she had no farther part to act,...
Страница 215 - I will never play this halfe year butt att 3 penny omber, and then with one att halves. I will not ; I doe not vow, but I will not doe it, — what...

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