Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Court of Charles the SecondThe Memoirs of Grammont, although universally admitted to be among the most witty and entertaining that have ever been written, described by Gibbon as a classic work, the delight of every man and woman of taste, praised and edited by Sir Walter Scott, printed in almost every lan guage and every form, and found in every good historical library are, it must be confessed, too much embued with the leaven of Charles the Second's days to suit the severer code of the present age. The book, however, is full of curious historical information, and must always be a standard library work, under whatever denomination it may be pre sented and the prudish reasons which should keep it inacces sible to the great mass of readers, would be equally applicable to nearly all the writers of the charles-the-second period, including Pepys, as well as to Ariosto, Fontaine, Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger, Ford, Byron, and even Shakspeare and Pope.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.