 Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and...  Samuel Pepys, Administrator, Observer, Gossip - Page 12by Esther Meynell - 1909 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1825 - 542 pages
...wind is so high !' — ' Feb. 25th. 1666-7- Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul...little room, at my lord Sandwich's, for which I ought ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God... | |
 | 1826 - 626 pages
...1667, we find this entry in the diary. ' Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul...same thing again, if God should reduce us to it." — vol.ii. p. 21. But better times were approaching Mr. Pepys; he accompanied Sir Edward Montagu upon... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1826 - 624 pages
...1667, we find this entry in the diary. ' Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul...in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's; for which l ought for ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1826 - 488 pages
...accordingly. *25. 166-f. A PATTERN FOR WIVES. ' Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me,poor wretch! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire... | |
 | Granville Penn - Admirals - 1833 - 646 pages
...weights of the high-prerogative and republican parties, so as to keep it constantly balanced and " with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord " Sandwich's." — Diary. 1 A reprint of that little tract is published in company with these Memorials. steadied... | |
 | Granville Penn - Admirals - 1833 - 648 pages
...weights of the high-prerogative and republican parties, so as to keep it constantly balanced and " with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lonl " Sandwich's." — Diary. steadied on the central line between those two extremes. That principle,... | |
 | Granville Penn - Admirals - 1833 - 644 pages
...Mountagu.1 1 " February 25th, 1666-7 — Lay long in bed ; talking with pleasure with " my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes But, if Penn possessed not the friendship of Clarendon, he enjoyed in full measure the far more desirable... | |
 | Granville Penn - Admirals - 1833 - 648 pages
...Mountagu.1 1 " February 25/A, 1666-7 — Lay long in bed ; talking with pleasure with " my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes But, if Penn possessed not the friendship of Clarendon, he enjoyed in full measure the far more desirable... | |
 | Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1848 - 418 pages
...1667, we find this entry in the diary. " Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul...same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.'' — Vol. ii. p. 21. But better times were approaching Mr Pepys ; he accompanied Sir Edward Montague... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 pages
...1667, we find this entry in the diary. " Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, Jiow she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes...same thing again, if God should reduce us to it." — Vol. ii. p. 21. Bat better times were approaching Mr Pepys ; he accompanied Sir Edward Montague... | |
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