Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth Century EnglandVintage Books, 1942 - 298 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... Addison an epithet that Pope , could he have comprehended it , would have relished . Addison , says Mr Dobrée , was the first Victorian . After being at Charterhouse and Oxford with Richard Steele , Addison came as an obscure young man ...
... Addison an epithet that Pope , could he have comprehended it , would have relished . Addison , says Mr Dobrée , was the first Victorian . After being at Charterhouse and Oxford with Richard Steele , Addison came as an obscure young man ...
Sivu 122
... Addison's own was fast approaching its end . He died , in 1719 , at the age of forty - seven . His political success is the more remarkable in that he was never in any real sense a politician . It is true that in Addison's day good ...
... Addison's own was fast approaching its end . He died , in 1719 , at the age of forty - seven . His political success is the more remarkable in that he was never in any real sense a politician . It is true that in Addison's day good ...
Sivu 123
... Addison was a paragon , a hypocrite , or a prig . There has always been Pope's annihilating thumb- nail sketch to reckon with ; it is plainly scurrilous , but it cannot be called implausible . And though we know that Pope never required ...
... Addison was a paragon , a hypocrite , or a prig . There has always been Pope's annihilating thumb- nail sketch to reckon with ; it is plainly scurrilous , but it cannot be called implausible . And though we know that Pope never required ...
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