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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... Bath . Ladies inscribed its songs on their fans and drawing - room screens . It was to triumph for two generations to come , and though there is nothing in the music itself that calls for comment , in the particular kind of musical ...
... Bath . Ladies inscribed its songs on their fans and drawing - room screens . It was to triumph for two generations to come , and though there is nothing in the music itself that calls for comment , in the particular kind of musical ...
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... Bath belongs - as any one with a historical sense is aware - to the days of Pope and Johnson . It awoke under Anne and went back to sleep during the Regency . One visits it today largely for its past ... Bath CHAPTER IV Bath 15558 149 156.
... Bath belongs - as any one with a historical sense is aware - to the days of Pope and Johnson . It awoke under Anne and went back to sleep during the Regency . One visits it today largely for its past ... Bath CHAPTER IV Bath 15558 149 156.
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... Bath , though later the Countess made Wesley's doctrines into a nine days ' wonder for the bored . Bath , after Nash's heyday , by no means at once declined . Its glories lasted out two more generations , and we are on the whole more ...
... Bath , though later the Countess made Wesley's doctrines into a nine days ' wonder for the bored . Bath , after Nash's heyday , by no means at once declined . Its glories lasted out two more generations , and we are on the whole more ...
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