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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... merely sit waiting for trade , but had hirelings prowl the streets for customers . Viciously enough , such clandestine marriages were binding . They were performed , it is true , without a licence ; but the lack of a licence did not ...
... merely sit waiting for trade , but had hirelings prowl the streets for customers . Viciously enough , such clandestine marriages were binding . They were performed , it is true , without a licence ; but the lack of a licence did not ...
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... mere extension of it , the conversation piece . In Hogarth's hands the conversation piece had shown signs of character , but with the Zoffanys it became a merely flattering version of family life and upper- class living . The age had ...
... mere extension of it , the conversation piece . In Hogarth's hands the conversation piece had shown signs of character , but with the Zoffanys it became a merely flattering version of family life and upper- class living . The age had ...
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... merely undeceived ; he was profoundly in- formed . Hogarth no more than Fielding can create “ faces imbued with unalterable sentiment , and figures that stand out in the eternal silence of thought " ; but he is more pene- trating in his ...
... merely undeceived ; he was profoundly in- formed . Hogarth no more than Fielding can create “ faces imbued with unalterable sentiment , and figures that stand out in the eternal silence of thought " ; but he is more pene- trating in his ...
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