 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1906 - 536 pages
...but that which engaged my curiosity was the rich and splendid furniture of this woman's apartment,5 now twice or thrice pulled down and rebuilt to satisfy her prodigal and expensive pleasures, whilst her Majesty's does not 1 [Sir Francis Pemberton, 1625-97. He was displaced for want of zeal... | |
 | Edward Alfred Jones - Plate - 1908 - 168 pages
...Duchess of Portsmouth in her room at Whitehall Palace, which are thus freely commented upon by Evelyn, "that which engaged my curiosity was the rich and splendid furniture of this woman's apartments, now twice or thrice pulled down and rebuilt to satisfy her prodigal and expensive pleasures,... | |
 | P. F. William Ryan - Great Britain - 1912 - 432 pages
...Portsmouth's dressing-room, within her bed-chamber, where she was in her morning loose-garment, her maid combing, newly out of her bed, His Majesty and the...satisfy her prodigal and expensive pleasures, while Her Majesty does not exceed some gentlemen's wives in furniture and accommodation. Here I saw the new fabric... | |
 | Ernest Law - Art - 1912 - 202 pages
...dressingroom, within her bedchamber, where she was in her morning loose garment, her maids combing her, newly out of her bed, his Majesty and the gallants...curiosity was the rich and splendid furniture of this woman s apartment, now twice or thrice pulled down and rebuilt to satisfy her prodigality and expensive... | |
 | Hugh Noel Williams - Great Britain - 1915 - 452 pages
...bedchamber, where she was in her morning loose garment, her maids combing her, newly out of bed, and his Majesty and the gallants standing about her ;...and rebuilt to satisfy her prodigal and expensive pleasure, whilst her Majesty's does not exceed some • Evelyn. t Barrillon. gentlemen's ladies' in... | |
 | Estelle Frances Ward - Great Britain - 1915 - 432 pages
...Duchess of Portsmouth at Whitehall, whither Evelyn accompanied the King and the Court gallants : ' What engaged my curiosity was the rich and splendid furniture...rebuilt to satisfy her prodigal and expensive pleasures, whilst Her Majesty's does not exceed some gentle ladies in furniture and accommodation. Here I saw... | |
 | Mark Girouard - History - 1978 - 358 pages
...Portsmouth, Charles II's mistress, and found her 'in her morning loose garment, her maids combing her, newly out of her bed, his majesty and the gallants standing about her'.46 The Duchess of Portsmouth's levée took place in her dressing room, within her bedroom. Dressing... | |
 | William F. Bynum, Roy Porter - Medical - 1993 - 364 pages
...dressing-room within her bedchamber, 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. There were many ways in which display of, and discussion about, the flesh became rather indelicate.46... | |
 | Lewis Melville - History - 2005 - 244 pages
...wanton. Her splendid apartments at the end of the gallery at Whitehall was, according to John Evelyn, "twice or thrice pulled down and rebuilt to satisfy her prodigal and expensive pleasures. She was allowed £10,000 a year out of the Privy Purse. In 1681 she actually drew from the Treasury... | |
 | Architecture, Domestic - 1917 - 450 pages
...lightened his cares, his purse and his furniture. Listen to what Evelyn writes of the Duchess's rooms: " But that which engaged my curiosity, was the rich...re-built to satisfy her prodigal and expensive pleasures, whilst her Majesty's does not exceed some gen'Conliniied on page 126) HARDY PERENNIAL FLOWERS (Continued... | |
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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,... 
