Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 29: June/july 1664
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 29: June/july 1664
Translated by Mynors Bright
June and July, 1664. The Dutch war is gathering on the horizon, but Samuel Pepys is still concerned with the ordinary catastrophes of his life: his wife's declining health, the grinding tedium of Admiralty paperwork, the money he owes, the plays he must see. In this volume of the most remarkable diary in English, we watch a middle-aged civil servant navigate the sulfurous politics of the Navy Board, oversee ship dispatches at Woolwich and Deptford, and receive grim news of English losses in far-off Tangier. Yet what elevates Pepys beyond mere chronicler is his unsparing honesty about himself. He admits his vanity, his jealousy, his lust, his petty anxieties. He records his wife's suffering with a tenderness that aches. He mocks his own hypochondria in the same paragraph where he notes a colleague's sudden death. Four years before the plague sweeps through these very streets, two years before fire remakes the city, Pepys gives us Restoration London as it actually felt to live inside it: tedious, frightening, glorious, human.
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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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