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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... English like , " he told Gluck , " is something they can beat time to . " Handel , the foreigner , best carried on the tradition of English music , which the English could not carry on for themselves . This tradition did not chime in ...
... English like , " he told Gluck , " is something they can beat time to . " Handel , the foreigner , best carried on the tradition of English music , which the English could not carry on for themselves . This tradition did not chime in ...
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... English novel ever serialized in a newspaper ( to be sure , it was almost the first English novel ) should have been Robinson Crusoe . The man who took to the road in quest of copy , who hung out in alehouses eavesdropping for Harley ...
... English novel ever serialized in a newspaper ( to be sure , it was almost the first English novel ) should have been Robinson Crusoe . The man who took to the road in quest of copy , who hung out in alehouses eavesdropping for Harley ...
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... English , or of a George Selwyn , which is sometimes hardly English at all . Elegance , at any rate , became capital to the English drawing - room , and produced in the school of Chesterfield a standard of polish and ease that would not ...
... English , or of a George Selwyn , which is sometimes hardly English at all . Elegance , at any rate , became capital to the English drawing - room , and produced in the school of Chesterfield a standard of polish and ease that would not ...
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