Royalty Restored: Or, London Under Charles II, Volume 1

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Ward & Downey, 1885
 

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Halaman 304 - Lord ! ,' how empty the streets are and melancholy, so many poor sick people in the streets full of sores ; and so many sad stories overheard as I walk, every body talking of this dead, and that man sick, and so many in this place, and so many in that.
Halaman 226 - Whitehall, and into the Queen's presence, where all the ladies walked, talking and fiddling with their hats and feathers, and changing and trying one another's by one another's heads, and laughing.
Halaman 167 - I find to be my Lady Castlemaine's enemy in this matter, I do promise upon my word to be his enemy as long as I live.
Halaman 225 - King took, methought, no notice of her ; nor when they 'light did anybody press (as she seemed to expect, and staid for it) to take her down, but was taken down by her own gentleman. She looked mighty out of...
Halaman 244 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Halaman 228 - Duchess at supper ; and thence into the room where the ball was to be, crammed with fine ladies, the greatest of the Court. By and by, comes the King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess, and all the great ones ; and after seating themselves, the King takes out the Duchess of York ; and the Duke, the Duchess of Buckingham ; the Duke of Monmouth, my Lady Castlemaine ; and so other lords other ladies : and they danced the...
Halaman 298 - ... delirium, and not far off, relations and friends bewailing both their loss and the dismal prospect of their own sudden departure ; death was the sure midwife to all children, and infants passed immediately from the womb to the grave.
Halaman 80 - Turks ; but I know not yet what they are for. The streets all gravelled, and the houses hung with carpets before them, made brave show, and the ladies out of the windows...
Halaman 144 - On the contrary, she has as much agreeableness in her looks altogether, as ever I saw : and if I have any skill in physiognomy, which I think I have, she must be as good a woman as ever was born.
Halaman 99 - ... that the King should immediately cause the woman to be sent to the Tower, and to be cast into a dungeon under so strict a guard, that no person living should be admitted to come to her ; and then that an Act of Parliament should be immediately passed for the cutting off of her head, to which he would not only give his consent, but would very willingly be the first man that should propose it." " And who ever knew the man," adds Hyde, in all the leisure of reminiscence, and of exile, " will believe...

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