 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 436 страници
...account of his daughter's usual occupations and habits redeems the age. " I can never forget," he says, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...forgetfulness of God, it being Sunday evening, which this night se'nnight I was witness of. The King sitting and toying with his favourites, Portsmouth, Cleveland... | |
 | 1907 - 848 страници
...But even these entries yield in poignancy of human interest to that other of the death of Charles ii: i can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfuiness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight l was witness of, the King... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1844 - 358 страници
...dissoluteness, and as it were total forgctfulncss of God, it being Sunday, which this day se'ennight I was witness of. The king sitting and toying with...his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine. A French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, while about seventy of the great courtiers,... | |
 | 1844 - 490 страници
...presents an awful lesson. He says, " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, being Sunday evening, which this day se 'night I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 472 страници
...but graphic picture of the Court : " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total...Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1845 - 862 страници
...are described by Evelyn, an eye-witness, present an awful scene : " I can never forget," says he, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulncss of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se-night I was witness to : the king... | |
 | England - 1845 - 478 страници
...presents an awful lesson. He says, " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, being Sunday evening, which this day se'night I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1846 - 602 страници
...especially Portsmouth, and added, ' Let not poor Nelly starve.'" A page or two further, Evelyn remarks, " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the... | |
 | William Howitt - 1846 - 376 страници
...all out, and — takes the last unction from a popish priest ! " I can never forget," says Evelyn, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarin, &c. — a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery ; whilst about twenty of... | |
 | 1847 - 496 страници
...end of that monarch for whose restoration he had blessed God. In the winter of 1685, he wrote : — "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the... | |
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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,... 
