Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandLife in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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But it is plain that such writers entered too long and too acquiescently a world not truly theirs . ... Congreve , as everyone knows , told Voltaire he wished to be thought of as a gentleman and not as a writer .
But it is plain that such writers entered too long and too acquiescently a world not truly theirs . ... Congreve , as everyone knows , told Voltaire he wished to be thought of as a gentleman and not as a writer .
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Defoe was less of an artist - by circumstances , temperament , or aspiration – than almost any other great writer in the range of English letters . ... He never lived among writers or reflected about writing ; he merely sat down ...
Defoe was less of an artist - by circumstances , temperament , or aspiration – than almost any other great writer in the range of English letters . ... He never lived among writers or reflected about writing ; he merely sat down ...
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The writers of the new age would not , like those of the old , be the companions of the great aristocrats , and would never rise by their pens to become ambassadors or secretaries of state . Writing had grown again to be a profession ...
The writers of the new age would not , like those of the old , be the companions of the great aristocrats , and would never rise by their pens to become ambassadors or secretaries of state . Writing had grown again to be a profession ...
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