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. |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 28
Sivu 76
... means restricted , by no means Oriental - of their own . It is true that times were changing , and that during the very years we are considering the role of women was be- coming ampler . There was , for one thing , a great improve- ment ...
... means restricted , by no means Oriental - of their own . It is true that times were changing , and that during the very years we are considering the role of women was be- coming ampler . There was , for one thing , a great improve- ment ...
Sivu 126
... means of cozening Swift at a time when Swift was invalu- able to the Tories , and second as a means of tempting Pope into the Tory camp . And in the final reckoning , these men who rose by the politics of Queen Anne's reign were in the ...
... means of cozening Swift at a time when Swift was invalu- able to the Tories , and second as a means of tempting Pope into the Tory camp . And in the final reckoning , these men who rose by the politics of Queen Anne's reign were in the ...
Sivu 302
... means profli- gacy and godlessness , and even when it means greed or irresponsibility or corruption , the chastisement is personal rather than social . Of passionate , positive humanitarianism there is very little ; of a true feeling ...
... means profli- gacy and godlessness , and even when it means greed or irresponsibility or corruption , the chastisement is personal rather than social . Of passionate , positive humanitarianism there is very little ; of a true feeling ...
Sisältö
The Last Stuart | 3 |
Details of the Plot | 16 |
Two or Three Characters | 25 |
Tekijänoikeudet | |
21 muita osia ei näytetty
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century England Louis Kronenberger Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2017 |
Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century England Louis Kronenberger Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2017 |
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Addison Anne Anne's aristocratic Augustan Bath became Beggar's Opera better Bolingbroke Burke century character Charles Charles Fox Chesterfield Church classical coffee-houses corruption court cynical Defoe Dr Johnson drink Duchess Duchess of Marlborough Duke eighteenth eighteenth-century England English Everyman's Fanny Burney fashion feeling France French French Revolution gambling Garrick genius George George III George Selwyn Hanover Harley Hogarth Horace Walpole House House of Hanover Jacobite King knew lacked Lady Mary later less lived London Lord Marlborough marriage matter ment merely middle-class mind modern moral never once opera Oxford painting Parliament party peace perhaps Pitt play political poor Pope prison Queen reign Revolution Sarah sense sentiment Sheridan social society Squire Swift taste theatre things throne tion Tories true turned virtue Walpole's Wesley Whigs Wilkes William Hogarth woman women writers wrote young