The Diary: With an Introduction and Notes

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Macmillan, 1905 - 800 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 149 - Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
الصفحة 10 - Here out of the windows it was a most pleasant sight to see the City from one end to the other with a glory about it, so high was the light of the bonfires, and so thick round the City, and the bells rang everywhere.
الصفحة 352 - In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness; but he may well be so, being a man so much above others.
الصفحة 49 - I went out to Charing Cross to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered ; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.
الصفحة 411 - They seemed much troubled, and the King commanded me to go to my Lord Mayor from him, and command him to spare no houses, but to pull down before the fire every way.
الصفحة xxvi - DIARY and CORRESPONDENCE of SAMUEL PEPYS, Esq. FRS Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II. and the intimate Friend of the celebrated John Evelyn. Edited by RICHARD, LORD BRAYBROOKE. In 2 vols. royal 4to. printed uniformly with " Evelyn's Memoirs," and embellished with Portraits and other Engravings by the first Artists.
الصفحة 55 - The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation ; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me. But my wife standing near her with two or three black patches on, and well dressed, did seem to me much handsomer than she.
الصفحة 447 - Evens, the famous man upon the Harp, having not his equal in the world, did the other day die for mere want, and was fain to be buried at the...
الصفحة xxv - I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand; and therefore, whatever comes of it, I must forbear; and therefore resolve from this time forward to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must be contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know...
الصفحة 229 - Hudibras, which I buy not, but borrow to read, to see if it be as good as the first, which the world cried so mightily up, though it hath not a good liking in me, though I had tried but twice or three times reading to bring myself to think it witty.

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