Samuel Pepys

In the essay on "Truth of Intercourse" will be found an example of his gracious and tactful moralising; In "Samuel Pepys," a penetrating interpretation of one of the most amazing pieces of self-revelation in the annals of literature.

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She covers biblical kissing, the French ban on la bise during the recent swine-flu scare, and much in between, such as Samuel Pepys's wife discovering his illicit kiss with a maidservant, an account he perhaps should not have included in his diary.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

Samuel Pepys recorded one such instance in his diary on 26 June 1663, after a dinner with Sir William Rider who had made his fortune in the Baltic.

Weatherwatch: lightning strikes 2011

Shortly after, she returned to the Theatre Royal and, according to Samuel Pepys, played parts that did not quite suit her.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

But when they refer to the maid of Desdemona's mother, the text reads "Barbarie"—a nickname, like Barb'ry or, in Samuel Pepys's Diary, Barbary Allen, of the old Scottish folksong.

So It Wasn't Jealousy After All? David Littlejohn 2011

Samuel Pepys recorded one such instance in his diary on 26 June 1663, after a dinner with Sir William Rider who had made his fortune in the Baltic.

Weatherwatch: lightning strikes 2011

Measuring only 9 by 7 inches, it depicts Gwyn, who was a leading comic actress and coquettish cockney and inspired the playwright Dryden to give her saucy parts and the diarist Samuel Pepys to describe her as "pretty witty Nell".

Graphic portrait of Charles II's mistress comes to light 2011

Measuring only 9 by 7 inches, it depicts Gwyn, who was a leading comic actress and coquettish cockney and inspired the playwright Dryden to give her saucy parts and the diarist Samuel Pepys to describe her as "pretty witty Nell".

Graphic portrait of Charles II's mistress comes to light 2011

Shortly after, she returned to the Theatre Royal and, according to Samuel Pepys, played parts that did not quite suit her.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

The statue, which had stood in St Olave's for centuries, surviving the Great Fire of 1666 and watching over the resting place of diarist Samuel Pepys, will undergo conservation work before being reinstalled in the church.

Statue looted from church in the Blitz returned 2011