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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Life in Eighteenth-century England Louis Kronenberger. CHAPTER IV BATH BATH , LIKE POWDERED HAIR and the minuet , seems pecul- iarly the bequest of the eighteenth century to those for whom memorials must be glamorous . Though it ...
Life in Eighteenth-century England Louis Kronenberger. CHAPTER IV BATH BATH , LIKE POWDERED HAIR and the minuet , seems pecul- iarly the bequest of the eighteenth century to those for whom memorials must be glamorous . Though it ...
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... Bath into a true capital , and Wood converted it . Wood , with a light , sure , classical touch , satisfied eighteenth - century taste and , which is perhaps less to his credit , satisfies ours . Only when he spread himself over Prior ...
... Bath into a true capital , and Wood converted it . Wood , with a light , sure , classical touch , satisfied eighteenth - century taste and , which is perhaps less to his credit , satisfies ours . Only when he spread himself over Prior ...
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... Bath en- closed , perhaps , something else than culture : it was the guardian of a dream , an eighteenth - century dream of ele- gance and style . In the end , as can scarcely be a surprise , Bath did not wake from its “ fat slumbers ...
... Bath en- closed , perhaps , something else than culture : it was the guardian of a dream , an eighteenth - century dream of ele- gance and style . In the end , as can scarcely be a surprise , Bath did not wake from its “ fat slumbers ...
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