"So to Cooper’s; and there find my wife and W. Hewer and Deb., sitting, and painting; and here he do work finely, though I fear it will not be so like as I expected: but now I understand his great skill in musick, his playing and setting to the French lute most excellently; and speaks French, and indeed is an excellent man." In spite of the fact that Sam fears his wife's likeness "will not be so like as I expected," he is so distracted by Cooper's skill in music, the French lute, and the French language that he uncharacteristically overlooks the primary fact that he engaged Cooper for a portrait for which Cooper may be incapable of meeting his expectations.
Impromptu tours of a residence can have unpleasant results. It's lucky for Sam and everyone in Sam's household that the place was shipshape and looking good that day!
" . . . whereas we take pains in expectation of future comfort and ease, I have taught myself to reflect upon myself at present as happy, and enjoy myself in that consideration . . . . " Me too. BTW, of all the beautiful places I have been to and have seen, St. George's Chapel at Windsor is by far the most impressive.
Sam certainly is a lubber. This is the second instance that I can recall of his ordering career watermen/sailors, who know much more about foul-weather sailing than he does, to douse sail.
I am in Amsterdam at present and spent the morning at the National Maritime Museum. The collection of paintings, some of them enormous, of famous battles in the Age of Fighting Sail is truly awe-inspiring, as is the full-size replica of an East Indiaman that a visitor can marvel at and wander through. All of it reminds of Pepys. Highly recommended.
I agree with Oz Susan. Enquiring minds want to know what Elizabeth, Mercer, and Mrs. Pepys Sr. are up to. Obviously, Sam is in denial and avoidance regarding them and their activities.
What a lot of commentary about copyright! This must have really hit a nerve among the scholarly commentators of this blog. Everybody needs to wake up to the news that only librarians obsess over copyright in these days of photocopying, at-home printing of scanned works, etc. Re music, I had an enormous fake book way back in the 1970s that I played from every day with great content. I doubt that any musician whose work was in that fake book would have given a tinker's dam about such use of their work.
On the topic of spoken English v. the written language, Liza Pickard writes in *Restoration London* (p. 202) as follows: "that mainstay of 'old-fashioned' English, the third person singular (he doth, she goeth), had disappeared from *spoken* English by 1653. 'Whensoever eth cometh in the end of any word, we may pronounce it sometimes like S and sometimes like Z.' " Pickard attributes this quote to R. Hodges, *True-Writing*, London, 1653.
San Diego Sarah: The forty shillings were only for Sam's admission into the society. They were not to be confused with the twenty pounds that Sam gave Elizabeth for Easter clothes. Apples and oranges. Btw, CGS, when I was a teacher in Louisiana in 1962 I made $300/mo.
I am indebted to this blog for acquainting me with many arcane bits of knowledge, but two of the most remarkable are William Petty as inventor of the first (European) catamaran and the remarkable Samuel Morland for inventing what could be called the first internal combustion engine, not to mention a lot of efficient pumps (very important to residents of New Orleans like me).
PS. Oz Susan. Shouldn't the past tense of 'chide' be 'chid'? Or has 'chide' gone weak like 'plead' -- the current preferred past tense of which (in the U.S.) is no longer 'pled' but the awful 'pleaded.' Have lawyers become too weak-minded to learn strong verbs?
Shakespeare seems to have had intimate awareness of what it's like to contemplate dying in a storm at sea and hitting the bottom as a somehow-sentient corpse. I've read an interesting argument that he traveled to the Dark Lady's home village and church in Italy, necessarily on a ship at least part of the way. I do wonder.
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About Friday 10 July 1668
LKvM • Link
"So to Cooper’s; and there find my wife and W. Hewer and Deb., sitting, and painting; and here he do work finely, though I fear it will not be so like as I expected: but now I understand his great skill in musick, his playing and setting to the French lute most excellently; and speaks French, and indeed is an excellent man."
In spite of the fact that Sam fears his wife's likeness "will not be so like as I expected," he is so distracted by Cooper's skill in music, the French lute, and the French language that he uncharacteristically overlooks the primary fact that he engaged Cooper for a portrait for which Cooper may be incapable of meeting his expectations.
About Monday 5 March 1665/66
LKvM • Link
Impromptu tours of a residence can have unpleasant results. It's lucky for Sam and everyone in Sam's household that the place was shipshape and looking good that day!
About Monday 26 February 1665/66
LKvM • Link
" . . . whereas we take pains in expectation of future comfort and ease, I have taught myself to reflect upon myself at present as happy, and enjoy myself in that consideration . . . . "
Me too. BTW, of all the beautiful places I have been to and have seen, St. George's Chapel at Windsor is by far the most impressive.
About Tuesday 7 November 1665
LKvM • Link
keys = quais
About Wednesday 1 November 1665
LKvM • Link
Sam certainly is a lubber. This is the second instance that I can recall of his ordering career watermen/sailors, who know much more about foul-weather sailing than he does, to douse sail.
About Thursday 8 June 1665
LKvM • Link
I am in Amsterdam at present and spent the morning at the National Maritime Museum. The collection of paintings, some of them enormous, of famous battles in the Age of Fighting Sail is truly awe-inspiring, as is the full-size replica of an East Indiaman that a visitor can marvel at and wander through. All of it reminds of Pepys. Highly recommended.
About Saturday 20 May 1665
LKvM • Link
I agree with Oz Susan. Enquiring minds want to know what Elizabeth, Mercer, and Mrs. Pepys Sr. are up to. Obviously, Sam is in denial and avoidance regarding them and their activities.
About Sunday 7 May 1665
LKvM • Link
What a lot of commentary about copyright! This must have really hit a nerve among the scholarly commentators of this blog.
Everybody needs to wake up to the news that only librarians obsess over copyright in these days of photocopying, at-home printing of scanned works, etc.
Re music, I had an enormous fake book way back in the 1970s that I played from every day with great content. I doubt that any musician whose work was in that fake book would have given a tinker's dam about such use of their work.
About Thursday 4 May 1665
LKvM • Link
I think "ancient" is somehow synonymous with "ensign."
About Monday 1 May 1665
LKvM • Link
No mention of May Day or "bringing in the May." Surprising.
About Wednesday 5 April 1665
LKvM • Link
germane
not germain (which is a name, Germain, fem. Germaine)
About Tuesday 4 April 1665
LKvM • Link
On the topic of spoken English v. the written language, Liza Pickard writes in *Restoration London* (p. 202) as follows:
"that mainstay of 'old-fashioned' English, the third person singular (he doth, she goeth), had disappeared from *spoken* English by 1653. 'Whensoever eth cometh in the end of any word, we may pronounce it sometimes like S and sometimes like Z.' "
Pickard attributes this quote to R. Hodges, *True-Writing*, London, 1653.
About Wednesday 1 March 1664/65
LKvM • Link
San Diego Sarah:
The forty shillings were only for Sam's admission into the society.
They were not to be confused with the twenty pounds that Sam gave Elizabeth for Easter clothes.
Apples and oranges.
Btw, CGS, when I was a teacher in Louisiana in 1962 I made $300/mo.
About Saturday 11 February 1664/65
LKvM • Link
Carl in Boston, from a French Quarterite: Thank you for remembering Morgus!
About Sunday 11 December 1664
LKvM • Link
I am indebted to this blog for acquainting me with many arcane bits of knowledge, but two of the most remarkable are William Petty as inventor of the first (European) catamaran and the remarkable Samuel Morland for inventing what could be called the first internal combustion engine, not to mention a lot of efficient pumps (very important to residents of New Orleans like me).
PS. Oz Susan.
Shouldn't the past tense of 'chide' be 'chid'? Or has 'chide' gone weak like 'plead' -- the current preferred past tense of which (in the U.S.) is no longer 'pled' but the awful 'pleaded.' Have lawyers become too weak-minded to learn strong verbs?
About Friday 18 November 1664
LKvM • Link
Trenchant apprehension, Chy.
About Monday 14 November 1664
LKvM • Link
Shakespeare seems to have had intimate awareness of what it's like to contemplate dying in a storm at sea and hitting the bottom as a somehow-sentient corpse. I've read an interesting argument that he traveled to the Dark Lady's home village and church in Italy, necessarily on a ship at least part of the way. I do wonder.
About Saturday 12 November 1664
LKvM • Link
1444? :-D
About Friday 19th October 1660
LKvM • Link
Daniel Axtell is one of my ancestors.
About Tuesday 4 November 1662
LKvM • Link
Re both Penn and Pepys finding common cause in being vexed by Minnes's "high" and "base" actions, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."