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Pepys

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Pepys  (pps, pps), Samuel 1633-1703.
English civil servant whose diary includes detailed descriptions of the Great Plague (1665) and the Great Fire of London (1666).
Pepysi·an adj.
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Noun1.PepysPepys - English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703)
Samuel Pepys


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The imagination thrills, and Heaven knows what figures people still its broad stream, Doctor Johnson with Boswell by his side, an old Pepys going on board a man-o'-war: the pageant of English history, and romance, and high adventure.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Putting aside Samuel Pepys, who has forced in this way the door of immortality, innumerable people, criminals, saints, philosophers, young girls, statesmen, and simple imbeciles, have kept self- revealing records from vanity no doubt, but also from other more inscrutable motives.
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