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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... remains uncontaminated . This is not quite the truth about Swift or Smollett or Defoe . To be sure , Hogarth spread the paint on thick : his pic- tures often wilfully exaggerate and are sometimes gro- tesques . But the final effect of a ...
... remains uncontaminated . This is not quite the truth about Swift or Smollett or Defoe . To be sure , Hogarth spread the paint on thick : his pic- tures often wilfully exaggerate and are sometimes gro- tesques . But the final effect of a ...
Sivu 279
... remains as to how ultimately satisfying is the result , as to how much that is richly personal and true is wanting , regardless of whether it would be discordant or out of place if it were there . And we must conclude that a very great ...
... remains as to how ultimately satisfying is the result , as to how much that is richly personal and true is wanting , regardless of whether it would be discordant or out of place if it were there . And we must conclude that a very great ...
Sivu 320
... remains glacially un- yielding . When the French Revolution came , the man who so long had styled himself a republican saluted Burke's Reflexions as " sublime " and " profound . " Things were breaking up , Walpole himself was old , and ...
... remains glacially un- yielding . When the French Revolution came , the man who so long had styled himself a republican saluted Burke's Reflexions as " sublime " and " profound . " Things were breaking up , Walpole himself was old , and ...
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