 | William Connor Sydney - 1892 - 484 pages
...event affect the giddy and heedless aristocracy that, as Evelyn says, "the face of the whole court was exceedingly changed into a more solemn and moral...king affecting neither profaneness nor buffoonery." We cannot wonder that the sudden fate which befell the king should have excited feelings of awe in... | |
 | Thomas Longueville - 1904 - 654 pages
...alteration had already been made in the court by the new King and Queen. "The face of the whole court was exceedingly changed into a more solemn and moral behaviour : the new King affecting neither prophaneness nor buffoonery." Among the Herbert MSS. is a letter in which the writer says : " On Sunday... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1906 - 536 pages
...without any manner of pomp, and soon forgotten after all this vanity, and the face of the whole Court was exceedingly changed into a more solemn and moral...King affecting neither profaneness nor buffoonery. All the great officers broke their staves over the grave, according to form. 15th. Dr. Tenison3 preached... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - 1914 - 658 pages
...resolve to reform the manners of the court. " The face of the whole court," says the sedate Evelyn, " was exceedingly changed into a more solemn and moral...behaviour, the new king affecting neither profaneness nor blasphemy." But this was mainly the cleansing of "the outside of the cup and platter"; and the king... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 664 pages
...strong sense of decorum and stateliness. " The face of the whole court," adds Evelyn a few days Inter, " was exceedingly changed into a more solemn and moral behaviour ; the new king affecting neither protaiieness nor buffoonery." When the ministers and great officers waited upon James, to surrender... | |
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Westminster, without any manner of pomp, and soon forgotten after all this vanity, and the face of the whole Court was exceedingly changed into a more solemn and moral behaviour; the new King affecting neither profaneness nor buffoonery. 
