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Sacharissa: Some Account of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland, Her ... - Page 233
by Julia Mary Cartwright Ady, Julia Cartwright - 1893 - 314 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

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
...concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &,c. a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...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....
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 13

1819 - 552 pages
...concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...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....
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Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell

Lady Rachel Russell, Mary Berry - 1819 - 268 pages
...concubines Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarin, &c. a French boy singing " love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers,...at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 20001. " in gold before them. Six days after, was all in the dust !" — Evelyn, vol. ip 549. (7) The...
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Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell

Lady Rachel Russell, Mary Barry - 1819 - 410 pages
...Portsmouth, Cleveland, and " Mazarin, &c. a French boy singing love songs in that glo•' rious gajlery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers, " and...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...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1819 - 630 pages
...concubines, Portsmouth, 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...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 14

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...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

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...gold before them ; six days after was all in the dust !' *7. 1802. — MARGATE HOY LOST. *7. 1807. — WILLIAM STEVENS DIED. He was a hosier by trade, and...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 29

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 pages
...concubines Portsmouth, Cleaveland and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing lovesongs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...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,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...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...
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