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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... house is the most important feature of Augustan society . Fifty years before Anne came to the throne , there were not half a dozen coffee - houses in London ; before she died , there were three thousand of them . In the course of her ...
... house is the most important feature of Augustan society . Fifty years before Anne came to the throne , there were not half a dozen coffee - houses in London ; before she died , there were three thousand of them . In the course of her ...
Sivu 63
... house origin , into the great organiza- tion of today . One knew , too , that at Button's , for ex- ample , where Addison held his " little senate , " politics were exclusively Whig , or at the Cocoa Tree exclusively Tory . The coffee ...
... house origin , into the great organiza- tion of today . One knew , too , that at Button's , for ex- ample , where Addison held his " little senate , " politics were exclusively Whig , or at the Cocoa Tree exclusively Tory . The coffee ...
Sivu 233
... house and set up a blackball . Membership in White's , and to a lesser degree in Brooks's or Boodle's , was a badge of caste . These somehow came to supplant the coffee - houses , by usurping for the few what had formerly been open to ...
... house and set up a blackball . Membership in White's , and to a lesser degree in Brooks's or Boodle's , was a badge of caste . These somehow came to supplant the coffee - houses , by usurping for the few what had formerly been open to ...
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Addison Anne Anne's aristocratic Augustan Bath became Beggar's Opera better Bolingbroke brilliant Burke century character Charles Charles Fox Chesterfield Church coffee-houses comedy court cynical Defoe Dr Johnson drink Duchess Duchess of Marlborough Duke eighteenth eighteenth-century England English Fanny Burney fashion feeling France French French Revolution friends gambling Garrick genius George George III George Selwyn Hanover Harley Hogarth Horace Walpole House House of Hanover King knew lacked Lady Mary later less lived London Lord Marlborough matter ment merely middle-class mind Mme du Deffand moral never once opera Oxford painting Parliament party peace perhaps Pitt play political poor Pope prison Queen reason reign Revolution Sarah sense sentiment Shelburne Sheridan social society sought Squire Swift taste theatre things throne tion Tories true turned virtue Walpole's wanted Wesley Whigs Wilkes woman women writers wrote young