Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 23: July/august 1663
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 23: July/august 1663
Translated by Mynors Bright
July and August 1663: the rain keeps Samuel Pepys indoors, and in that confinement we find him at his most revealing. He quarrels with Sir G. Carteret over money, fumes through parliamentary speeches, and frets about his wife Elizabeth's absence from London. Yet between the Admiralty ledgers and political machinations, Pepys cannot stop watching the world. He notes who sits where at the theater, trades gossip with fellow clerks, and records, sometimes with shame, sometimes with pride, his own romantic impulses and moral failures. This is the diary's extraordinary power: it captures a man trying to advance in Restoration England while simultaneously chronicling the chaos of his own heart. Latham's abridged edition preserves Pepys' irreplaceable voice: curious, vain, often ridiculous, occasionally sublime. Here is 1663 unfiltered, the year King Charles II consolidates his power, the navy expands, and one clerk writes himself into immortality because he simply could not stop watching.
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“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.””
— Samuel Pepys
“The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.””
— Samuel Pepys
“He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.””
— Samuel Pepys
“And so to bed.””
— Samuel Pepys
“Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all!””
— Samuel Pepys
“I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.””
— Samuel Pepys
“Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.””
— Samuel Pepys
“neighbour of ours, Mr. Hollworthy, a very able man, is also dead by a fall in the country from his horse, his foot hanging in the stirrup, and his brains beat out.””
— Samuel Pepys
“I saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I went in after her and kissed her.””
— Samuel Pepys
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