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... My Autobiography and Reminiscences - Page 253by William Powell Frith - 1888 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pages
...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 afSOOO 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) - 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 were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust!' He deplored his loss, he said,... | |
| 1818 - 606 pages
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were 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. Six davs after, all was in the dust !' He deplored his loss, he said,... | |
| 1819 - 552 pages
...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 ^20OO in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment.... | |
| Lady Rachel Russell - 1819 - 410 pages
...&c. a French boy singing love songs in that glo•' rjous gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers, " and other dissolute persons, were 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... | |
| Lady Rachel Russell, Mary Barry - 1819 - 410 pages
...&c. a French boy singing love songs in that glo•' rious gajlery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers, " and other dissolute persons, were 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... | |
| 1819 - 630 pages
...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 me made reflexion* with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust!' He deplored his loss, he said,... | |
| 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.... | |
| 1823 - 428 pages
...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, two thousand in gold before them Marquis of Halifax. Character of Charles II. f Burnet, Six days after, was all... | |
| 1823 - 428 pages
...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, two thousand in gold before them * Marquis of Halifax. Character of Charles II. t Burnet. Six days after, was all... | |
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