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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... writers of the age fell into it and were drowned . Historically , however , Augustan literature amounts to much more than exquisite decoration . The Augustan writers , being participants rather than mere observers of high so- ciety ...
... writers of the age fell into it and were drowned . Historically , however , Augustan literature amounts to much more than exquisite decoration . The Augustan writers , being participants rather than mere observers of high so- ciety ...
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... writers who had acquired a certain position in society : Addison , Steele , Pope , Prior , Gay . A Duke of Shrewsbury might stand on his dignity and refuse to accept a Prior as his co - ambassa- dor to Paris , but would have no ...
... writers who had acquired a certain position in society : Addison , Steele , Pope , Prior , Gay . A Duke of Shrewsbury might stand on his dignity and refuse to accept a Prior as his co - ambassa- dor to Paris , but would have no ...
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... writers , and used them , politically , much less ; while writers themselves were finding publishers more satisfactory than patrons , and were helped by the knowledge that a large middle - class public had emerged which dwarfed the ...
... writers , and used them , politically , much less ; while writers themselves were finding publishers more satisfactory than patrons , and were helped by the knowledge that a large middle - class public had emerged which dwarfed the ...
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