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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... produced Napoleon and subsided only at Waterloo . The mind of Burke could only deprecate from the outset , and soon enough denounce , what was happening . Pitt , with the instinct of cultivating his garden , sought to ignore the ...
... produced Napoleon and subsided only at Waterloo . The mind of Burke could only deprecate from the outset , and soon enough denounce , what was happening . Pitt , with the instinct of cultivating his garden , sought to ignore the ...
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... produced more than twenty of the plays , and turned a growing vogue for Shakespeare's work into a fixed tradition . It would , to be sure , have been better had he remained content with producing Shakespeare and in- terpreting his roles ...
... produced more than twenty of the plays , and turned a growing vogue for Shakespeare's work into a fixed tradition . It would , to be sure , have been better had he remained content with producing Shakespeare and in- terpreting his roles ...
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... produced genuinely unsentimental comedy ; whereas Sheridan , however superior in talent , for the most part sim- ply produced satire . The one took the line of ridicule , but the other set an example . Sheridan was fully a man of the ...
... produced genuinely unsentimental comedy ; whereas Sheridan , however superior in talent , for the most part sim- ply produced satire . The one took the line of ridicule , but the other set an example . Sheridan was fully a man of the ...
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