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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... fashion ; and though it has a certain value as a social document , it has almost none as art . Indeed , all the best of it is a kind of hand - me - down from the Restoration . Vanbrugh is the playwright who has best survived , and his ...
... fashion ; and though it has a certain value as a social document , it has almost none as art . Indeed , all the best of it is a kind of hand - me - down from the Restoration . Vanbrugh is the playwright who has best survived , and his ...
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... fashion , the horizons of the countryside were almost as fixed as they were narrow . Before 1750 the death of feudalism was the one profound change - and in practice it was some- times not profound - that had come over the countryside ...
... fashion , the horizons of the countryside were almost as fixed as they were narrow . Before 1750 the death of feudalism was the one profound change - and in practice it was some- times not profound - that had come over the countryside ...
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... Fashion jostled fashion : Chippendale furniture , to use a familiar example , evolved from a Louis XV style to a Chinese one , and thence , ineffectually , to a Gothic . Houses were at last not simply put up : they were really put ...
... Fashion jostled fashion : Chippendale furniture , to use a familiar example , evolved from a Louis XV style to a Chinese one , and thence , ineffectually , to a Gothic . Houses were at last not simply put up : they were really put ...
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