 | 1825 - 634 pages
...militia." I. 264)— 263. 1C63, 4, January 4. Pepys went to sec the King play at Tennis, and observes, " but to see how the King's play was extolled without any cause at all, was a loathsome sight — such open flattery is beastly." I. 272. Pepys gives the following account of a popular Court preacher,... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...went " to the tennis-court, and there saw the king (Charles II.) play at tennis. But," says Pepys, " "0 18 G pall mall." Pull- Mull. The most common memorial of this diversion is the street of that name, once... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...tennis-conrt, and there saw the king (Charles II.) play at tennis. But," says rcpys, " to see how the kind's play was extolled, without any cause at all, was a...Afterwards to St. James's park, seeing people play at pall mall." Pali- Mall. The most common memorial of this diversion is the street of that name, once... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 532 pages
...so well as the rest, he being too prancing and full of tricks, she said he did make too much vanity. To the Tennis Court, and there saw the King play at...Afterwards to St. James's Park, seeing people play at Pell Mell; 1 Sir Nicholas Gold, or Gould, created a Baronet in 1660, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1855 - 504 pages
...so well as the rest, he being too prancing and full of tricks, she said he did make too much vanity. To the Tennis Court, and there saw the King play at...Sir Nicholas Gold, or Gould, created a Baronet in 1600, married Elizabeth daughter of Sir John Garrard, Bart., of Lamors, Herts. She remarried Thomas... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 336 pages
...speaks of pride, like a boy of the same form, in these terms, describing royalty in the tennis-court : " To see how the king's play was extolled, without any cause at all, was a loathsome sight, — such open flattery is beastly." Only the bower, with some of its strong loves, can tone such people... | |
 | Thomas Egerton Earl of Wilton - 1868 - 356 pages
...Mr. Pepys went " to the Tennis Court, and there saw King Charles II. play at tennis, but," says he, " to see how the king's play was extolled, without any...cause at all, was a loathsome sight, though sometimes he did play very well indeed, and deserved to be commended : but such open flattery is beastly." Pepys... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1876 - 538 pages
...as the rest, he being too prancing and full of tricks, she said he did make too much vanity. Thence to the Tennis Court, and there saw the King play at...open flattery is beastly. Afterwards to St. James's Parke, seeing people play at Pell Mell; where it pleased me mightily to hear a gallant, lately come... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 400 pages
...Court to see the King play at tennis, and goes home to journalize his impressions of the scene : " But to see how the King's play was extolled, without...be commended ; but such open flattery is beastly." Le flatteur n'a pas assez bonne opinion de soi ni des autres, La Bruyere says. Goldsmith's Chinese... | |
 | Julian Marshall - 1878 - 308 pages
...particularly, playing well, I thought." On the 4th of the following January (1664) the same writer went " To the Tennis Court, and there saw the King play at...Afterwards to St. James's Park, seeing people play at Pell Mell, &c. . . ," which seems to have been a relief to honest Pepys, who, in some respects at least,... | |
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To the Tennis Court, and there saw the King play at tennis and others : but to see how the King's play was extolled, without any cause at all, was a loathsome sight, though sometimes, indeed, he did play very well, and deserved to be commended ; but such... 
