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 36
Sivu 137
... took care of his mother ; entertained his friends ; wrote his poetry ; wrote , rewrote , and doctored his letters ; nursed his feuds ; and squirted his poison . From time to time he appeared in London , or went on visits to lordly ...
... took care of his mother ; entertained his friends ; wrote his poetry ; wrote , rewrote , and doctored his letters ; nursed his feuds ; and squirted his poison . From time to time he appeared in London , or went on visits to lordly ...
Sivu 236
... took over the throne , Pitt would probably fall from power , and he accede to it . But the notable part of Fox's opposition has mostly to do with his attitude toward the French Revolution . At the fall of the Bastille most Englishmen ...
... took over the throne , Pitt would probably fall from power , and he accede to it . But the notable part of Fox's opposition has mostly to do with his attitude toward the French Revolution . At the fall of the Bastille most Englishmen ...
Sivu 301
... took from Richardson , but he took nothing else . His tone is always as playful as Richard- son's is earnest ; and not convinced that goodness could get by on its own merits , he sought for all he was worth to make it charming ...
... took from Richardson , but he took nothing else . His tone is always as playful as Richard- son's is earnest ; and not convinced that goodness could get by on its own merits , he sought for all he was worth to make it charming ...
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