Pepys

How To Use Pepys In A Sentence

• There he is on the front cover - a corpulent fellow with pink cheeks and a long, grey wig, staring out at us with a hint of arrogance: Samuel Pepys, the great diarist.
• The amateur cannot usually rise into the artist, some leaven of the world still clogging him; and we find Pepys behaving like a pickthank to the man who taught him composition. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• After Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, Pepys practised law and was brought into Parliament in 1831 on the Fitzwilliam interest.
• I can't help but feel that if you could write a biography of Pepys with only side references to the diary it'd work a lot better.
• Though Pepys gives many similar honest and unblushing accounts of wholesome venality and decadence, much more is concerned with events of the day.
• Chaucer worked in the first Customs House, and Pepys saw the building of the first wet dock at Blackwall.
• The first attested usage of quarantine in its modern sense, the isolation of a potentially infective person or thing, is in the diary of Samuel Pepys in 1663, where he goes off onto a etmylogical point: Some words whose meanings have changed without controversy « Motivated Grammar
• On this occasion, she witnessed several experiments of "colours, loadstones, microscopes" and was "full of admiration", although according to Pepys, her dress was "so antic and her deportment so unordinary" that the fellows were made strangely uneasy. The Royal Society's lost women scientists
• Pepys is to diarists what Shakespeare is to dramatists and Boswell is to biographers; the standard against whom all others must be measured.
• It can make fascinating reading, especially as it makes extensive use of hypertext and reader annotation to allow discussion about Pepys' diary entries.