 | 1825 - 648 pages
...done bv Nell her mervv part, as cannot be better done in nature. "May 1. To Westminster ; in the wav meeting many milk-maids with their garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them ; aud saw prettv Nelly standing at her lodgings' door in Orurv -lane in her smock sleeves and bodice,... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 620 pages
...an excellent play, and so done by Nell her merry part, as cannot be better done in nature. "May 1. To Westminster ; in the way meeting many milk-maids with their garlands upon their pnils, dancing with a fiddler before them ; and sawr pretty Nelly standing at her lodgings' door in... | |
 | Edward Mangin - Authors, English - 1841 - 234 pages
...the line, about the inventor of which manoeuvre, so much dispute has arisen in our time ? Page 209. " and saw pretty Nelly standing at her lodging's door...in her smock sleeves and bodice, looking upon one." All this is wonderfully graphic: one sees the forms of Nell Gwynne, and Pepyg, and Lord Crewe; at a... | |
 | Edward Mangin - Authors, English - 1841 - 194 pages
...the line, about the inventor of which manoeuvre, so much dispute has arisen in our time ? Page 209. " and saw pretty Nelly standing at her lodging's door...in her smock sleeves and bodice, looking upon one." All this is wonderfully graphic: one sees the forms of Nell Gwynne, and Pepys, and Lord Crewe; at a... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...players. By and by into the pit, and there saw the play, which is pretty good.'— 'May 1st, 1667. To Westminster; in the way meeting many milk-maids...before them ; and saw pretty Nelly standing at her lodgings' door in Drury Lane, in her smock sleeves anil boddice, looking upon one : she seemed a mighty... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 488 pages
...warm-hearted Nell Gwynne was at this period an inhabitant of Drury Lane. " To Westminster, in the way, many milkmaids, with their garlands upon their pails,...with a fiddler before them ; and saw pretty Nelly stand at- her lodgings-door, in Drury Lane, in her smock sleeves and bodice, looking upon one; she... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...her there on a May-morning. "May 1st, 1667. To Westminster, in the way meeting many milkmaids with garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler...looking upon one. She seemed a mighty pretty creature." Lodgings in this quarter, though Nell lived there, must have been of more decent reputation than they... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...her there on a May-morning. "May 1st, 1667. To Westminster, in the way meeting many milkmaids with garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler...looking upon one. She seemed a mighty pretty creature." Lodgings in this quarter, though Nell lived there, must have been of more decent reputation than they... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1891 - 672 pages
...Pepys saw Mistress Eleanor Gwynn, which event he chronicles in the ' Diary¡' in these terms : — "To Westminster in the way meeting many milkmaids,...before them ; and saw pretty Nelly standing at her lodgings' door in Urury-lane in her smock eleerea and bodice looking upon one : she seemed a mighty... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - City dwellers - 1849 - 472 pages
...fact. He says, under date of May 1st, 1667, " To Westminster, in the way meeting many milkmaids, with garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them, and saw pretty Nelly standing at her lodging-door in Drury Lane, in her smock sleeves and bodice, looking at them. She seemed a mighty pretty... | |
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To Westminster; in the way meeting many milkmaids with their garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them ; and saw pretty Nelly standing at her lodgings' door in Drury-lane in her smock sleeves and bodice, looking upon one : she seemed... 
