Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts: Including the Protectorate, Volume 3R. Bentley, 1855 |
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... ETHEREGE . Summary of Etherege's Character - His Comedy of " The Comical Revenge " Introduced to the private Parties of Charles- His Dramatic Writings - Libertinism of his Poetry- Marries a rich Widow to retrieve his Fortunes- His ...
... ETHEREGE . Summary of Etherege's Character - His Comedy of " The Comical Revenge " Introduced to the private Parties of Charles- His Dramatic Writings - Libertinism of his Poetry- Marries a rich Widow to retrieve his Fortunes- His ...
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... Etherege - His Sprightliness and showy Person PAGE • 314 SIR CHARLES SEDLEY . Parentage of Sir Charles - Waller's Epitaph on his Mother- Sedley's first Appearance at Court - His Reception among the Wits - Insidious Libertinism of his ...
... Etherege - His Sprightliness and showy Person PAGE • 314 SIR CHARLES SEDLEY . Parentage of Sir Charles - Waller's Epitaph on his Mother- Sedley's first Appearance at Court - His Reception among the Wits - Insidious Libertinism of his ...
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... Etherege - Her Intercourse with Lacy and Hart , the Actors - Falls into the hands of Lord Buck- hurst Becomes the Mistress of Charles the Second - Her Merits as an Actress - Freedom with the King - Anecdotes— Nell Gywnn's Residence in ...
... Etherege - Her Intercourse with Lacy and Hart , the Actors - Falls into the hands of Lord Buck- hurst Becomes the Mistress of Charles the Second - Her Merits as an Actress - Freedom with the King - Anecdotes— Nell Gywnn's Residence in ...
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... Etherege , bantering him with considerable hu- mour on the change in his habits : - " I have heard the news , " he says , " with no less astonishment than if I had been told the Pope had begun to wear a periwig , and had turned beau in ...
... Etherege , bantering him with considerable hu- mour on the change in his habits : - " I have heard the news , " he says , " with no less astonishment than if I had been told the Pope had begun to wear a periwig , and had turned beau in ...
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... his house at Whitehall , opposite the present Admiralty , in March , 1688 , and was buried in West- minster Abbey , near the graves of Chaucer and Cowley . SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE . Summary of Etherege's Character - His LADY DENHAM . 313.
... his house at Whitehall , opposite the present Admiralty , in March , 1688 , and was buried in West- minster Abbey , near the graves of Chaucer and Cowley . SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE . Summary of Etherege's Character - His LADY DENHAM . 313.
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Page 64 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Page 64 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 248 - To pass our tedious hours away, We throw a merry main ; Or else at serious ombre play ; But why should we in vain Each other's ruin thus pursue ! We were undone when we left you.
Page 200 - Following his Majesty this morning through the gallery, I went with the few who attended him, into the Duchess of Portsmouth's dressing-room within her bed-chamber, where she was in her morning loose garment, her maids combing her, newly out of her bed, his Majesty and the gallants standing about her...
Page 126 - And, like the sun, the promised land surveys. Fame runs before him as the morning star, And shouts of joy salute him from afar ; Each house receives him as a guardian god And consecrates the place of his abode.
Page 201 - The deep recesses of the grove he gain'd ; Where, in a plain defended by the wood, Crept through the matted grass a crystal flood, By which an alabaster fountain stood : And on the margin of the fount was laid (Attended by her slaves) a sleeping maid.
Page 421 - England are sufficient to make the king as great a monarch as I can wish ; and as I shall never depart from the just rights and prerogatives of the crown, so I shall never invade any man's property. I have often heretofore ventured my life in defence of the nation, and I shall still go as far as any man in preserving it in all its just rights and liberties.
Page 376 - Florimell, that I never can hope ever to see the like done again, by man or woman. The King and Duke of York were at the play. But so great performance of a comical part was never, I believe, in the world before as Nell do this, both as a mad girle...
Page 343 - Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did that want supply : So rich in treasures of her own, She might our boasted stores defy: Such noble vigour did her verse adorn That it seemed borrowed, where 'twas only born.
Page 371 - Stephen Marshall's, the great Presbyterian's daughters; and that Nelly and Beck Marshall falling out the other day, the latter called the other my Lord Buckhurst's mistress. Nell answered her, " I was but one man's mistress, though I was brought up in a brothel to fill strong water to the gentlemen; and you are a mistress to three or four, though a Presbyter's praying daughter.