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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... friends , Sarah with almost every- body she came to know , Pope even with people he did not know . The list could be much extended . We may judge the character of these people not only because they quarrelled , but by what they ...
... friends , Sarah with almost every- body she came to know , Pope even with people he did not know . The list could be much extended . We may judge the character of these people not only because they quarrelled , but by what they ...
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... friends as " Poxed by her love and libelled by her hate ' " " is a fair example of his aspersions.11 With the rival person- ality of her age , the Duchess of Marlborough , Lady Mary appears to have got on very well . Doubtless each ...
... friends as " Poxed by her love and libelled by her hate ' " " is a fair example of his aspersions.11 With the rival person- ality of her age , the Duchess of Marlborough , Lady Mary appears to have got on very well . Doubtless each ...
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... friends fiercely championed the Faustina ; Lady Pembroke and her friends just as fiercely championed the Cuzzoni . Whigs and Tories , Guelphs and Ghibellines , were hardly more at daggers drawn . Walpole's wife , for a wonder ...
... friends fiercely championed the Faustina ; Lady Pembroke and her friends just as fiercely championed the Cuzzoni . Whigs and Tories , Guelphs and Ghibellines , were hardly more at daggers drawn . Walpole's wife , for a wonder ...
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