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. THE POOR THE ANNALS of the eighteenth - century poor are short enough ; no doubt to their more fortunate contemporaries they seemed simple also . Of the virtuous poor - before the ...
Life in Eighteenth-century England Louis Kronenberger. THE POOR THE ANNALS of the eighteenth - century poor are short enough ; no doubt to their more fortunate contemporaries they seemed simple also . Of the virtuous poor - before the ...
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... eighteenth - 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 ...
... eighteenth - 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 ...
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... eighteenth - century idea , and it is by way of them that we come upon what is most distinctive in eighteenth - century prose . The stately periods of Gibbon - no less stately when he is portraying himself than when he is conjuring up ...
... eighteenth - century idea , and it is by way of them that we come upon what is most distinctive in eighteenth - century prose . The stately periods of Gibbon - no less stately when he is portraying himself than when he is conjuring up ...
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