Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith, with a life and notes by Richard lord Braybrooke, Band 4

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Seite 46 - Chronicle, to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the painter. "Abroad with my wife," writes Pepys piously, " the first time that ever I rode in my own coach -, which do make my heart rejoice and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me, and continue it.
Seite 63 - Princesse,"2 the first time I ever saw it; and it is a pretty good play, many good things being in it, and a good scene of a town on fire. We sat in an upper box, and the jade Nell come and sat in the next box; a bold merry slut, who lay laughing there upon people; and with a comrade of hers of the Duke's house, that come in to see the play.
Seite 166 - I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in shorthand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me !
Seite 66 - At last, about one o'clock, she came to my side of the bed, and drew my curtaine open, and with the tongs red hot at the ends, made as if she did design to pinch me with them, at which, in dismay, I rose up, and with a few words she laid them down...
Seite 105 - Hall, from whence the King and the Duke of York went by three in the morning, and had the misfortune to be overset with the Duke of York, the Duke of Monmouth, and the Prince,1 at the King's Gate 2 in Holborne ; and the King all dirty, but no hurt.
Seite 101 - I love my love with an A, because he is so and so : and I hate him with an A, because of this and that : " " and some of them, but particularly the Duchess herself, and my Lady Castlemayne, were very witty.
Seite 166 - I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand ; and, therefore, whatever comes of it, I must forbear : and, therefore, resolve, from this time forward, to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must be contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know...
Seite 67 - Sempronia,1 to imitate her ; for which she got my Lord Chamberlain, her kinsman,* to imprison Doll : when my Lady Castlemayne made the King to release her, and to order her to act it again, worse than ever, the other day, where the King himself was : and since it was acted again, and my Lady Harvy provided people to hiss her and fling oranges at her...
Seite 10 - A Letter from a Gentleman to the Honourable Ed. Howard, Esq., occasioned by a Civiliz'd Epistle of Mr. Dryden's before his Second Edition of his Indian Emperour. In the Savoy, printed by Thomas Newcomb, 1668.

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