Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... Addison's name alive long after even Sir Roger de Coverley has van- ished . And recently Mr Bonamy Dobrée , rather allying him- self with Pope , has applied to Addison an epithet that Pope , could he have comprehended it , would have ...
... Addison's name alive long after even Sir Roger de Coverley has van- ished . And recently Mr Bonamy Dobrée , rather allying him- self with Pope , has applied to Addison an epithet that Pope , could he have comprehended it , would have ...
Sivu 133
... Addison's sake , Marlborough triumphed at Blen- heim ; at any rate Blenheim was the occasion for so many bad poems that Addison was sought out to compose a good one . It was not good , but it made Addison's fortune . From then on , his ...
... Addison's sake , Marlborough triumphed at Blen- heim ; at any rate Blenheim was the occasion for so many bad poems that Addison was sought out to compose a good one . It was not good , but it made Addison's fortune . From then on , his ...
Sivu 135
... Addison did , in the age he himself has so vividly described , he must often have been politic and disingenuous and knowing . He must have been very worldly , for in those days naïveté was fatal . It is the next step , however , that ...
... Addison did , in the age he himself has so vividly described , he must often have been politic and disingenuous and knowing . He must have been very worldly , for in those days naïveté was fatal . It is the next step , however , that ...
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