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 43
Sivu 137
... 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 houses - a " valetudinaire " always , an invalid usually ...
... 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 houses - a " valetudinaire " always , an invalid usually ...
Sivu 142
... wrote , the pamphlets he reeled off , tremendously fortified their peace policy . Swift's price was characteristic . He repudiated pay - it stank of hire- lings and Grub Street ; he disdained vulgar fame . He wanted Harley's and ...
... wrote , the pamphlets he reeled off , tremendously fortified their peace policy . Swift's price was characteristic . He repudiated pay - it stank of hire- lings and Grub Street ; he disdained vulgar fame . He wanted Harley's and ...
Sivu 154
... wrote anything great , he was quite thirty before he wrote at all . Son of a Nonconformist tradesman , he was bred up to trade ; and it was only the political and religious ferments of the late seventeenth cen- tury that turned the ...
... wrote anything great , he was quite thirty before he wrote at all . Son of a Nonconformist tradesman , he was bred up to trade ; and it was only the political and religious ferments of the late seventeenth cen- tury that turned the ...
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