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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... century had no data for understanding him , and the nineteenth century not the right data . One might , if one chose , draw many ingenious , if not too accurate , parallels between Pope and Proust . Enough do exist , at any rate , to ...
... century had no data for understanding him , and the nineteenth century not the right data . One might , if one chose , draw many ingenious , if not too accurate , parallels between Pope and Proust . Enough do exist , at any rate , to ...
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... century one change for the bet- ter came into the life of the poor : gin - drinking greatly de- clined . This was partly owing to government intervention ; partly to a rise in the standard of living ( though toward the end of the century ...
... century one change for the bet- ter came into the life of the poor : gin - drinking greatly de- clined . This was partly owing to government intervention ; partly to a rise in the standard of living ( though toward the end of the century ...
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... century word and thing , the picturesque - and in a quite literal sense , for its aim was to look as much as possible like a picture . “ All gardening , " Pope had said , " is landscape painting . " Every country gen- tleman , it was ...
... century word and thing , the picturesque - and in a quite literal sense , for its aim was to look as much as possible like a picture . “ All gardening , " Pope had said , " is landscape painting . " Every country gen- tleman , it was ...
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