Red-letter Days of Samuel PepysSidgwick and Jackson, 1910 - 299 pages |
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... church , and Mr. Mills made a good sermon : so home to dinner . My wife and I all alone to a leg of mutton , the sawce of which being made sweet , I was angry at it , and eat none , but only dined upon the marrow - bone that we had ...
... church , and Mr. Mills made a good sermon : so home to dinner . My wife and I all alone to a leg of mutton , the sawce of which being made sweet , I was angry at it , and eat none , but only dined upon the marrow - bone that we had ...
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... I could and would do , if I were worth £ 2000 , that is , be a knight , and keep my coach , which pleased her . To church in the morning : none in the pew but myself . March 24 , 1662 . Comes La Belle Pierce to 5 MR . AND MRS . PEPYS.
... I could and would do , if I were worth £ 2000 , that is , be a knight , and keep my coach , which pleased her . To church in the morning : none in the pew but myself . March 24 , 1662 . Comes La Belle Pierce to 5 MR . AND MRS . PEPYS.
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... church , and so home to dinner , where my wife in a jealous fit , which lasted all the afternoon , and shut herself up in her closet , and I mightily grieved and vexed , and could not get her to tell me what ailed her , or to let me ...
... church , and so home to dinner , where my wife in a jealous fit , which lasted all the afternoon , and shut herself up in her closet , and I mightily grieved and vexed , and could not get her to tell me what ailed her , or to let me ...
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... Church Yard , to my bookseller's , and , having gained this day in the office by my stationer's bill to the King about 40s . or £ 3 , calling for twenty books to lay this money out upon , and found myself at a great loss where to choose ...
... Church Yard , to my bookseller's , and , having gained this day in the office by my stationer's bill to the King about 40s . or £ 3 , calling for twenty books to lay this money out upon , and found myself at a great loss where to choose ...
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... church , but spent all the morning reading of " The Madd Lovers , " a very good play . Read another play , " The Custome of the Country , " which is a very poor one , methinks . ! January 18 , 1664-65 . To my bookseller's , 36 RED ...
... church , but spent all the morning reading of " The Madd Lovers , " a very good play . Read another play , " The Custome of the Country , " which is a very poor one , methinks . ! January 18 , 1664-65 . To my bookseller's , 36 RED ...
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Page 10 - Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.
Page 152 - This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and
Page 163 - I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home : seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as pitch and tar, in Thames Street; and warehouses of oyle, and wines, and brandy, and other things.
Page 53 - But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.
Page 74 - In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch home my wife, I stopped at the great Coffee-house 1 there, where I never was before : where Dryden, the poet, I knew at Cambridge, and all the wits of the town, and Harris the player, and Mr. Hoole, of our College. And, had I had time then, or could at other times, it will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is very witty and pleasant discourse.
Page 95 - ... now, all otherwise: then, the Queen seldom and the King never would come; now, not the King only for state, but all civil people do think they may come as well as any.
Page 158 - I went away and walked to Greenwich, in my way seeing a coffin with a dead body therein, dead of the plague, lying in an open close belonging to Coome farme, which was carried out last night, and the parish have not appointed any body to bury it ; but only set a watch there day and night, that nobody should go thither or come thence : this disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs.
Page 165 - So near the fire as we could for smoke; and all over the Thames, with one's face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of fire-drops.
Page 78 - I had for them, after oysters, at first course a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef. Next a great dish of roasted fowl, cost me about 30s., and a tart ; and then fruit and cheese.
Page 62 - Soon as ever the clock struck one, I kissed my wife in the kitchen by the fireside, wishing her a merry new year.