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John Evelyn
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John Evelyn : Elysium Britannicum
'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants, kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet
John Evelyn : Thersander [probably]
'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants. kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet
John Evelyn : [poems]
'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants. kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet
John Evelyn : Hortus Hyemalis
'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants. kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet
John Evelyn : Celia afraid of an eagle
'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants. kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet
John Evelyn : [proposition about public infirmaries]
'Up, and to the office - where, among other businesses, Mr Evelyn's proposition about public Infirmarys was read and agreed on, he being there.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
John Evelyn : Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitude
'And after having been there so long, I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne Elmes, reading of Mr Eveling's late new book against Solitude, in which I do not find much excess of good matter, though it be pretty for a by-discourse.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
John Evelyn : Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitude
'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where I left [28 April?], finding many fine things worthy [of] observation.'