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Hace 4 días · The diarist Samuel Pepys noted that his house was “miserably overflooded” in 1663. But it was a tidal surge in 1953 which killed 300 people that triggered the construction of the barrier.
Hace 4 días · Like many who could afford it, the diarist Samuel Pepys chewed tobacco. Others turned to amulets and charms. Writing to her nephew who still remained in the city, one Lady Isham advised him to ‘to ware a quill as is filed up with quicksilver and sealed up with hard waxe & soed up in a silke thinge with string to ware about your neck’.
Hace 2 horas · The first documented performance of the Punch character was recorded by Samuel Pepys in his diary on 9 May 1662, when a marionette puppet called Pulcinella, rooted in the commedia dell’arte ...
Hace 1 día · Fifty years after Shakespeare, diarist Samuel Pepys appeared to be using it that way, writing in 1660 of being “at home with the workmen all the afternoon, our house being in the most sad pickle.”
Hace 4 días · Samuel Pepys, who wrote the oldest known comments on the play, found A Midsummer Night's Dream to be "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life". Dorothea Kehler has attempted to trace the criticism of the work through the centuries.
Hace 5 días · William Lilly (11 May [O.S. 1 May] 1602 – 9 June 1681) was a seventeenth century English astrologer. He is described as having been a genius at something "that modern mainstream opinion has since decided cannot be done at all" having developed his stature as the most important astrologer in England through his social and political connections as well as going on to have an indelible impact ...
Hace 1 día · Ultimately, private libraries reflect their owners’ quirks. The writer John Fowles, for example, collected travel books, old murder trials and historical memoirs, while the diarist Samuel Pepys organised his 3,000-odd volumes strictly by size. Some libraries are meant to enhance social status.
