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" I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of. the King sitting and toying with his concubines,... "
London: Its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places - Page 49
by John Heneage Jesse - 1871
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 102

Scotland - 1867 - 816 pages
...and two friends. " I can never forget," writes Evelyn, "the inexpressible luxury and profanenesses, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total...forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'enight I was witness of." " Six days after was all in the dust." That the painter joins Evelyn on...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...affected bij his death. Writing on the day when James was proclaimed, he says, ' I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, 8tc. a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1818 - 598 pages
...affected by his death. Writing on the day when James was proclaimed, he says, ' I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of ( 'od (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

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 - 600 pages
...affected by his death. Writing on the day when James was proclaimed, he says, ' I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgettulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king...
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Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell,

Lady Rachel Russell - 1819 - 410 pages
...ing many particulars of the death of Charles II. in February, 1685, says: — " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury '.' and profaneness, gaming,...se'nnight, I was witness of : the King sitting " and toyjng with his concubines Portsmouth, Cleveland, and " Mazarin, &c. a French boy singing love songs...
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 13

1819 - 552 pages
...affected by his death. Writing on the day when James was proclaimed, he says, ' I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sittirg ana u-yig with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1819 - 630 pages
...affected by his death. Writing on the day when James was proclaimed, he says, • I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which thi* day se'nnight 1 was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland,...
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Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell

Lady Rachel Russell, Mary Barry - Nobility - 1819 - 410 pages
...mentioning many particulars of the death of Charles II. in February, 1685, says: — "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury " and profaneness, gaming,...dissoluteness, and, as it, " were, total forgetfulness of Qod, (it being Sunday evening,i " which, this day se'nnight, I was witness of: the King sitting " and...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...inexpressible luxury and prophanenesse, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfullnesse of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witnesse of, the King sitting with about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons, who...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...Mr. Evelyn calls to mind a scene which he had witnessed not many days before. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute...
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