HKB
3 passages · search this phrase →
Often appears with: crime and punishment · vengeance plot · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · theatre at salisbury court · theatre and performance · sexual humiliation · religious persecution and toleration · public reputation and shame · prayer or religious incantation · parliament debate · marriage and betrothal · london parliamentary election
Usually: narrative (2) · record or table (1) · injustice endured (1) · the fall of the great (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · lament (1) · skepticism (1)
Pepys watches plays “The Bondman” and “The Queen’s Maske,” travels with the court including Hinchingbrooke, talks at the office and Tower, hears news of ambassadors and royal gossips, and notes elections in London and arrests of religious dissenters.
common country tale. But above all it was strange to see so little a boy as that was to act Cupid, which is one of the greatest parts in it. 4th. My Lord went this morning on his journey to Hinchingbroke, Mr. Parker with him; the chief business being to look over and determine how, and in what manner, his great work of building shall be done. Before his going he did give me some jewells to keep for him, viz. that …
Pepys reports Commissioner Pett’s imprisonment in the Tower, a rumored Dutch ship explosion, and talk at the Navy office that money shortages may lead to Parliament being called or not.
they begin to fear the main. He and every body cries out of the office of the Ordnance, for their neglects, both at Gravesend and Upner, and every where else. 18th. To the office, and by and by word was brought me that Commissioner Pett is brought to the Tower, and there laid up close prisoner; which puts me into a fright, lest they may do the same with us as they do with him. Great news to-night of the blowing up…
Elena, trapped naked atop a tower after the scholar Rinieri removes the ladder, repeats a church orison, faints, then begs him to restore her clothes and let her escape before Florence shames her.
cause, and by whom, his wrath, thus rekindled, got the better of the other affections, so that he swerved not from his resolve, but suffered her to go her way. The lady ascended the tower, and standing with her face to the North, began to recite the scholar's orison, while he, having stolen into the tower but a little behind her, cautiously shifted the ladder that led up to the roof on which the lady stood, and wait…