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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... society . Like the men of that age , the women were inordinately cynical . They believed the worst because , from their own lives , they had reason to believe it . There was something really absurd to them about sexual virtue ; there ...
... society . Like the men of that age , the women were inordinately cynical . They believed the worst because , from their own lives , they had reason to believe it . There was something really absurd to them about sexual virtue ; there ...
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... society ac- knowledged their importance as much as they acknowl- edged society's . If Pope at his Twickenham villa cherished an invitation to Hampton Court , visitors at court delighted equally in going to Twickenham . The result , for ...
... society ac- knowledged their importance as much as they acknowl- edged society's . If Pope at his Twickenham villa cherished an invitation to Hampton Court , visitors at court delighted equally in going to Twickenham . The result , for ...
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... society , they were not taken up as wits , and the mid - century wit was a special product of society it- self someone who said his good things among his own friends . Thus , however witty , Dr Johnson was never known as a wit ; nor ...
... society , they were not taken up as wits , and the mid - century wit was a special product of society it- self someone who said his good things among his own friends . Thus , however witty , Dr Johnson was never known as a wit ; nor ...
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