Samuel Pepys is about four centuries behind in his blogging. From Wordnik.com. [Another Day in the Ketchup Mine] Reference
LiveJournaler Samuel Pepys is 343 years and eleven days late chronicling his life. From Wordnik.com. [August 20th, 2006] Reference
(The term moiré, by the way, comes from watered silk, as mentioned in Pepys 'Diary). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-04-01] Reference
Of particular interest to me because Pepys is contemporary with the rise of Quakerism. From Wordnik.com. [2003 February] Reference
He is an officer of the Admiralty, called Pepys, and, Fareham tells me, a useful, indefatigable person. From Wordnik.com. [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference
There’s an explanation right there about the Navy Office, as well as a map of where it was in Pepys’ London. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writers Looking for Answers] Reference
Samuel Pepys is at war. From Wordnik.com. [War and sex] Reference
'Pepys' Diary ',' Two Years Before the Mast ', and a book on the. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
Among these were 'Pepys's Diary', Suetonius's 'Lives of the Twelve. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)] Reference
When we said that Boswell was a kind of Pepys, we fell by chance into a happy comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Mince Pie] Reference
Whilst making the first statement, he doubtless remembered the passage in 'Pepys's Diary.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
'Pepys' Diary 'is the ablest picture of the age in which the writer lived, and a work of standard importance in English literature. ". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, 1850.12.21 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
Pepys was there of course; he rarely missed any sight. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
State Papers Dom. (1663-1664), p. 278; Pepys, Diary, 28. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
It was something of this, I think, that clung to Pepys. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
The origin of the Fire Pepys learnt later (February 24, 1667). From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
The story, as told by Pepys, is to the effect that on Wednesday. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
The next year the storyteller is reading Pepys (pronounced "peeps"). From Wordnik.com. [Steady Keel] Reference
Street, Pepys tells us, that the practice of blowing up houses began. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
This will remind the reader of the one given by Pepys, vol.ii. p. 415. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850] Reference
The Pepys (pronounced peeps) diary was originally published as a book. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Blogs?] Reference
The ambassador to be sure was late, but Pepys beguiled the time with dinner. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
Pepys himself was obliged to confess that he got to his bed only "pretty well.". From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
Pepys, or his informant, however, appears to have erred in more than one point. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
Three broadsides are known, two in the Roxburghe and one in the Pepys collection. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference
The instrument was soon set up again after the Restoration, and Pepys, on April 10th. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Pepys was an indefatigable, and, we cannot but half suspect, an unscrupulous collector. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
The variety of Pepys 'tastes and pursuits led him into almost every department of life. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
In the robust and plain-speaking days of old Pepys our forbears took their Musick seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit and Music] Reference
But, to be quite in sympathy with Pepys, we must return once more to the experience of children. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Pepys, "a strange thing, that so horrid an effect should have so mean and uncertain a beginning.". From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
If Pepys had written his Diary for publication he would have been left to oblivion as a driveller. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
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