 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1810
...answer to an assertion that ' the Players were the King's Servants, and a part of his pleasure ;' " Whether did the King's pleasure lie among the men or the women actors."* This having been reported in the Court, the KM : ordered some of the guards to way-lay the... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1810
...answer to an assertion that ' the Players were the King's Servants, and a part of his pleasure ;' " Whether did the King's pleasure lie among the men or the women actors."* This having been reported in the Court, the Kin.- ordered some of the guards to way-lay the... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Nobility - 1812
...court : it was said, " The players were the King's servants, and a part of his pleasure." Whereupon Sir John Coventry asked, " Whether did the King's...pleasure lie among the men, or the women that acted '.." This was carried with great indignation to the court. It was said, " This was the first time that... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Nobility - 1812
...court : it was said, " The players were the King's servants, and a part of his pleasure." Whereupon Sir John Coventry asked, " Whether did the King's...pleasure lie among the men, or the women that acted ?" This was carried with great indignation to the court. It was said, " This was the first time that... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1813
...for Learning or Abilities.' ' t Own Time, p. 269, 270. vants, and a part of his pleasure." Whereupon Sir John Coventry asked : " Whether did the king's...pleasure lie among the men or the women that acted ?" This was carried, with great indignation, to the court. It was said, " This was the first time,... | |
 | Thomas Hood, John Harris - Architecture - 1813
...Learning or Ahilities." • t Own Time, p. 269, 27". vants, and a part of his pleasure." Whereupon Sir John Coventry asked : "Whether did the king's...pleasure lie among the men or, the women that acted?" This was carried, with great indignation, to the court. It was said, " This was the first time, the... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet, Sir Thomas Burnet, Martin Joseph Routh - Great Britain - 1823
...opposed by the court: it was said, the players were the king's servants, and a part of his pleasure. Coventry asked, whether did the king's pleasure lie among the men or the women that w As to his personal charac- are some of them the fullest of ter, there was nothing remark- obscenity... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824
...The court opposed it. " It was said the players were the king's servants, and a part of his pleasure. Sir John Coventry asked, whether did the king's pleasure lie among the men or the women that acted ? This was carried with great indignation to the court. It was said, this was the first time that the... | |
 | Mary Berry - England - 1828 - 462 pages
...opposed by the court. " The players," it was said, were the King's servants, " and part of his pleasure. Sir John Coventry asked, " Whether did the King's...pleasure lie among the men or " the women that acted ? " — BURNET'S Own Times, vol. i. p. 468. 71 tack to have been made through his means, and under... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832
...the Court — it was said that the .players were the King's Servants, and a part of his pleasure — Sir John Coventry asked, whether did the King's pleasure lie among the men or women that acted ? — as the King loved a joke ; and as his connexion with Mrs. Davis and Nell Gwyn... | |
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Whether did the King's pleasure lie among the men, or the women that acted '.." This was carried with great indignation to the court. It was said, 
