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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,... "
The Eclectic Review - Page 242
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Memorials of the Stuart Dynasty: Including the Constitutional and ...

Robert Vaughan - 1831 - 560 pages
...se'nnight, I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his 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 large...
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The Life of Thomas Ken, D.D., Deprived Bishop of Bath and Wells: Viewed in ...

William Lisle Bowles - 1831 - 372 pages
...se'nnight I was witnesse of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table,...
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Southern Review, Volume 7

1831 - 550 pages
...se'nnight Iwaswitnesse of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the greate courtiers, and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large...
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The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...

William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...witness of; the king (Charles II.) sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and When (¡ml was fear'd. And the king revered. By the heart» of a gratefu whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 20

Walter Scott - 1848 - 418 pages
...dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulnesse of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day s'ennight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy sing, ing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticism

Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 402 pages
...dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulnesse of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day s'ennight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about...
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Periodical Criticism, Volume 4

Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 pages
...dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulnessa of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day s'ennight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about...
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The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]., Volume 2

1835 - 428 pages
...sen'night I was witness of, the king sitting toying with his 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 large...
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The Parterre, Volume 2

1835 - 428 pages
...sen'night I was witness- of, the king sitting toying with his 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 large...
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Brambletye House, Or, Cavaliers and Roundheads

Horace Smith - 1837 - 316 pages
...and as it were total forgetfulnesse of God, (it being Sunday evening,) w,hich this day se'nnight l was witness of; the king sitting and toying with his concubines Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c.;—a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about...
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