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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... Pope , have come down to posterity with the reputation of being close . But it was rather that they saw , in an age of hirelings and endless ups and downs , where today's peer - foolish writer might find himself tomorrow . We must save ...
... Pope , have come down to posterity with the reputation of being close . But it was rather that they saw , in an age of hirelings and endless ups and downs , where today's peer - foolish writer might find himself tomorrow . We must save ...
Sivu 136
... Pope's victims , not Pope , have always received the benefit of the doubt . For generations , despairing commentators seized on Pope's wonderful devotion to his parents as a triumphant proof that he was not all bad , and as a last ...
... Pope's victims , not Pope , have always received the benefit of the doubt . For generations , despairing commentators seized on Pope's wonderful devotion to his parents as a triumphant proof that he was not all bad , and as a last ...
Sivu 138
... Pope's badness is both glaring and repugnant , it is only his vanity and not the malice which fed upon it that is continuous in the man ; he was quite unlike a monster . He needed affection and sympathy and deference , as most men need ...
... Pope's badness is both glaring and repugnant , it is only his vanity and not the malice which fed upon it that is continuous in the man ; he was quite unlike a monster . He needed affection and sympathy and deference , as most men need ...
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