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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... died her enemy . Her brother - in - law Wil- liam , as King , had never treated her well and too often treated her badly . Her husband was kind and loving enough , but Anne had to support him . Add to this the fact that all her children ...
... died her enemy . Her brother - in - law Wil- liam , as King , had never treated her well and too often treated her badly . Her husband was kind and loving enough , but Anne had to support him . Add to this the fact that all her children ...
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... died in infancy , and George II another . The Prince , as a result , was banished the court and took up hostile residence with his wife in Leicester Fields . There migrated all the po- litically disaffected as well as most of the youth ...
... died in infancy , and George II another . The Prince , as a result , was banished the court and took up hostile residence with his wife in Leicester Fields . There migrated all the po- litically disaffected as well as most of the youth ...
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... died was a Cabinet minister . Nor did his literary career lag behind his political one : the Tatlers and Spectators he wrote had wide popularity , and his Cato ran for thirty - five nights , a very long run considering the age , not to ...
... died was a Cabinet minister . Nor did his literary career lag behind his political one : the Tatlers and Spectators he wrote had wide popularity , and his Cato ran for thirty - five nights , a very long run considering the age , not 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