 | English literature - 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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 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,... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...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...astonishment. Six days after all was in the dust!' , In the year 1694 he left Sayes Court, after having resided there more than forty years, to pass 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,... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset, round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand in gold before them; upon which, two gentlemen, who...me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days, qfter, "was all in dust!" From this moment, the court of England assumed a better aspect. James II.,... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - England - 1825 - 454 pages
...other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand pounds in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who...made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust !" The conduct of James completed the ruin of the Stuarts in the opinion of the... | |
 | Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 450 pages
...other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand pounds in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who...made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust !" The conduct of James completed the ruin of the Stuarts in the opinion of the... | |
 | Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1826 - 418 pages
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at bassett round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them : upon which two gentlemen who...made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust." — Memoirs, vol. 1. p. .08.5. CHAPTER V. Who hunts, doth oft in danger ride... | |
 | Nathaniel Appleton Haven - American literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table — a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them — upon which, two gentlemen,...made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust ! " " Thrones fall and dynasties are changed : Empires decay and sink Beneath their... | |
 | Nathaniel Appleton Haven - American literature - 1827 - 406 pages
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table — a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them — upon which, two gentlemen,...made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust ! " " Thrones fall and dynasties are changed : Empires decay and sink Beneath their... | |
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... 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 round a large... 
