 I thence walked with him through St. James's Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between * * * and Mrs. Nelly, as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall,...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1471907Full view - About this book
 | John James Stevenson - 1880 - 406 pages
...though it does not refer to art, is interesting : " I thence walked with him, when I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between [him] and Mrs. Nelly,...looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of a wall " (where now is the Army and Navy Club), " and [he] standing on the green walk under it. I was... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1885 - 434 pages
...but overhear " a very familiar discourse" between his Majesty and the "impudent comedian." She was looking out of her garden, on a terrace at the top of a wall, while the King stood on the green walk beneath. No wonder Evelyn was scandalized at what he... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1886 - 1030 pages
...a very familiar discourse between . . . {tkt King} and Mrs. Nelly, as they called her, an intimate comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and [tkt King] standing on the green walk under it. 1 was heartily lorry at this scene." — EVBLYN'S Memoir^... | |
 | American periodicals - 1886 - 894 pages
...virtuous John Evelyn records his sorrow at seeing one pleasant summer day " this impudent comedian looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and his Majesty 'standing on the green walk under it," whilst they engaged in pleasant conversation. But... | |
 | England - 1886 - 848 pages
...virtuous John Evelyn records his sorrow at seeing one pleasant summer day " this impudent comedian looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and his Majesty standing on the green walk under it," whilst they engaged in pleasant conversation. But... | |
 | Herbert Fry - 1886 - 372 pages
...Park, that Evelyn " saw and heard a familiar discourse between the King (Charles II.) and Mrs. Nellie, as they called an impudent comedian ; she looking out of her garden on a ten-ace at the top of the wall, and the King standing on the green walk under it." The Oxford and Cambridge... | |
 | 1887 - 374 pages
...Park, that Evelyn " saw and heard a familiar discourse between the King (Charles II.) and Mrs. Nellie, as they called an impudent comedian ; she looking...her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and the King standing on the green walk under it." The Oxford and Cambridge Club-house, occupying from... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - London (England) - 1890 - 360 pages
...St. James's (March 2nd, 1671), when he both saw and heard " a discussion between the King and Miss Nelly, as they called an impudent comedian, she looking...of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, the King standing on the green walk under it." Of this curious scene, by the way, EW Ward, tte artist,... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1892 - 338 pages
...to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between Mrs. Nelly, as they call an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall.' What this garden was is proved by the Act for erecting St. James's parish, 1685, 'and from thence [St.... | |
 | Edgar Sheppard - Great Britain - 1894 - 532 pages
...Park, that Evelyn ' saw and heard a familiar discourse between the King [Charles II.] and Mrs. Nellie ; she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and the King standing on the green walk under it.' In the Historical MSS. reference is made, in the year... | |
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