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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... Queen and country were for the defendant ; and he converted his trifling punishment into an effective martyr- dom . The Whig glass was surely falling . The burden of the war ; the injury to Marlborough's prestige ; the Queen's fierce ...
... Queen and country were for the defendant ; and he converted his trifling punishment into an effective martyr- dom . The Whig glass was surely falling . The burden of the war ; the injury to Marlborough's prestige ; the Queen's fierce ...
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... Queen , ever laxer at his job , hence easier to remove and so supplant . Time pressed painfully , for the Queen was dying . Yet time was needed , for Bolingbroke had no mature plans or respect- able allies , no sure way of keeping ...
... Queen , ever laxer at his job , hence easier to remove and so supplant . Time pressed painfully , for the Queen was dying . Yet time was needed , for Bolingbroke had no mature plans or respect- able allies , no sure way of keeping ...
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... Queen or hacking away at those who sought the Queen's interest - whether accredited statesmen , or aspir- ing politicians , or necessitous gentlewomen . " Poor , unfortunate , faithful " Morley grew less and less faithful as it occurred ...
... Queen or hacking away at those who sought the Queen's interest - whether accredited statesmen , or aspir- ing politicians , or necessitous gentlewomen . " Poor , unfortunate , faithful " Morley grew less and less faithful as it occurred ...
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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