 | 1826 - 622 páginas
...several years no higher than the 12d. and than the 18rf. places, though I strained hard to go in them, when I did : so much the vanity and prodigality of...observed in this particular. Thence I to White Hall, — attended the King and the Duke of York, in the Duke of York's lodgings, &c. on many businesses.... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1828 - 486 páginas
...several years no higher than the ]2d. and then the 1 8d. places, though I strained hard to go in then when I did : so much the vanity and prodigality of...observed in this particular. Thence I to White Hall, and I there walked up and down the house a while, and do hear nothing of any thing done further in this... | |
 | 1829 - 488 páginas
...several years no higher than the l2rf. and then the l8rf. places, though I strained hard to go in then when I did ; so much the vanity and prodigality of the age is to be observed m this particular." It may be at this moment interesting to mention that the first Covent Garden Theatre... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 334 páginas
...several years no higher than the 12rf. and then the 18<f. places, though I strained hard to go in them when I did : so much the vanity and prodigality of the age is to be observed in this particular." f What he calls the vanity of the age, was one of the best signs of its advancement. Plays, at the... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 500 páginas
...pit at 2s. 6d. a-piece as now ; I going for several years no higher than the IZd. and then the ISd. places, though I strained hard to go in when I did...change of Privy-counsellors : only I hear that Sir G. Savile," one of the Parliament Committee of nine, for examining the Accounts, 1 This work first appeared... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 páginas
...at 2s. and 6d. a piece, as now ; I going for several years no higher than the 12d. and then the I8d. places, though I strained hard to go in when I did...of the age is to be observed in this particular.' One can easily conceive Pepys in his 'prentice days, loving pleasure, yet a prig. And, indeed, so scandalized... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 516 páginas
...pit at 2s. 6d. a-piece as now ; I going for several years no higher than the 12d. and then the 18d. places, though I strained hard to go in when I did...change of Privy-counsellors : only I hear that Sir GK Savile,2 one of the Parliament Committee of nine, for examining the Accounts, is by the King 1 This... | |
 | 1871 - 630 páginas
...higher than the shilling, and then the eighteen- penny places, though I strained hard to go in them when I did ; so much the vanity and prodigality of the age is to be observed in this particular." Pepys, like John Gilpin's spouse, had a frugal mind, however bent on pleasure. He relates, with some... | |
 | Edward Dutton Cook - 1876 - 346 páginas
...no higher than the shilling, and then the eighteenpenny places, though I strained hard to go in them when I did ; so much the vanity and prodigality of the age is to be observed in this particular." Pepys, like John Gilpin's spouse, had a frugal mind, however bent on pleasure. He relates, with some... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1877 - 514 páginas
...places, though I strained hard to go in when I did : so much the vanity and prodigality of the age is to observed in this particular. Thence I to White Hall,...house a while, and do hear nothing of anything done 1 This work first appeared in 1652, and was reprinted, by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, at the Lee Priory... | |
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I began first to be able to bestow a play on myself, I do not remember that I saw so many by half of the ordinary 'prentices and mean people in the pit at 2s. 
