#SamuelPepys
Literarischer #26Mai

„Die meisten Männer, die auf der Welt vorwärts kommen, vergessen das Vergnügen während der Zeit, in der sie ihr Vermögen erarbeiten; sie warten, bis sie es geschafft haben, und dann ist es für sie zu spät, sich daran zu erfreuen.“

#SamuelPepys Tod 1703
May 26, 2024 at 6:03 AM
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose—17th century edition—bitching about the help in one’s diary.
January 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🥳It's 358 years since #SamuelPepys shat in a fireplace:

"I to bed and in the night was mightily troubled with a looseness (I suppose from some fresh damp linen that I put on) and was forced to rise and shit in the chimney twice; and so to bed and was very well again."🎉
September 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Ultimately, we can only be grateful for this strange series of events. Almost 400 years after its composition, Pepys’s diary still fascinates and delights its readers for its passages on the plague, the Great Fire of London, and the scandals of the court of King Charles II.
#SamuelPepys
May 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
#17thCproblems MT ‏@samuelpepys Drum brought me a lobster and a bottle of oil, instead of a bottle of vinegar, whereby I spoiled my dinner.
December 5, 2024 at 11:12 PM
previous RT: what is a "hampire of millions"? @samuelpepys
December 5, 2024 at 2:00 AM
My kind of night! RT @samuelpepys: Home to supper and to Selden, “Mare Clausum,” and so to bed.
November 24, 2024 at 1:47 AM
SamuelPepys also had a friend who was full of shit.
To my Lord Crew’s, where one Mr. Templer (an ingenious man and a person of honour he seems to be) dined; and, discoursing of the nature of serpents, he told us that in the waste places of Lancashire do grow to a great bigness, and that do feed upon larks, which they take thus:
February 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM