 | George Cavendish - 1899 - 298 Seiten
...viands of the finest sort that might be provided for money or friendship. Such pleasures were then devised for the king's comfort and consolation, as...man's wit imagined. The banquets were set forth, with masks and mummeries, in so gorgeous a sort, and costly manner, that it was an heaven to behold. There... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - 1899 - 534 Seiten
...Wolsey, who enlarged the building and kept regal state in it. Cavendish, his biographer, writes: " The banquets were set forth with masques and mummeries, in so gorgeous a sort and costly a manner, that it was heaven to behold. . . . I have seen the king suddenly come hither in a mask,... | |
 | Charles William Heckethorn - 1899 - 394 Seiten
...no preparations or goodly furniture, with viands of the finest sorts . . . such pleasures were then devised for the King's comfort and consolation as might be invented or by man's wit designed.' Of course, Cavendish wrote like the flunkey he was : ' The banquets were set forth with... | |
 | Ernest Philip Alphonse Law - 1900 - 480 Seiten
...with viands of the finest sort, that could be gotten for money or friendship. Such pleasures were then devised for the King's comfort and consolation as might be invented or imagined. Banquets were set forth, masques, and mummeries in so gorgeous a sort, and costly manner,... | |
 | John Greene Henderson - 1904 - 1184 Seiten
...the king's majesty, for his recreation, to repair unto the cardinal's house, such pleasures were then devised for the king's comfort and consolation as...man's wit imagined. The banquets were set forth with masks and mummeries in so gorgeous a sort and costly manner, that it was a heaven to behold. There... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1904 - 286 Seiten
...viands of the finest sort that might be provided for money or friendship ; such pleasures were then devised for the king's comfort and consolation as...man's wit imagined. The banquets were set forth, with masks and mummeries, in so gorgeous a sort and costly manner, that it was a heaven to behold. There... | |
 | George Cavendish - 1905 - 252 Seiten
...viands of the finest sort that might be provided for money or friendship. Such pleasures were then devised for the king's comfort and consolation, as...man's wit imagined. The banquets were set forth, with masks and mummeries, in so gorgeous a sort, and costly manner, that it was an heaven to behold. There... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1907 - 566 Seiten
...sort that might be provided for money or friendship, such pleasures were then devised for the King s comfort and consolation, as might be invented, or...man's wit imagined. The banquets were set forth, with masks and mummeries, in so gorgeous a sort, and costly a manner, that it was a heaven to behold. There... | |
 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 460 Seiten
...black, and the King brought in a Mummery," and George Cavendish wrote in his Life of Cardinal Wolsey, " The banquets were set forth with Masques and Mummeries, in so gorgeous a sort and costly a manner that it was a heaven to behold." When the change called the Reformation delivered the Secular... | |
 | Robert Burns Morgan - 1923 - 696 Seiten
...viands of the finest sort that might be provided for money or friendship. Such pleasures were then devised for the king's comfort and consolation as...man's wit imagined. The banquets were set forth, with masks and mummeries, in so gorgeous a sort, and costly manner, that it was a heaven to behold. There... | |
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... friendship. Such pleasures were then devised for the king's comfort and consolation, as might be invented, or by man's wit imagined. The banquets were set forth, with masks and mummeries, in so gorgeous a sort, and costly manner, that it was a heaven... 
