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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... friends -Swift , Gay , Bolingbroke , Peterborough , Arbuthnot , Buckingham . In spite of towering disadvantages of ... friends . At thirty he settled down , for the rest of his life , at Twickenham ; and there he busied him- self with ...
... friends -Swift , Gay , Bolingbroke , Peterborough , Arbuthnot , Buckingham . In spite of towering disadvantages of ... friends . At thirty he settled down , for the rest of his life , at Twickenham ; and there he busied him- self with ...
Sivu 126
... friends , playfulness , a charming social self , and - cramped in between the soiled gallantries and the shrill hates — an instinct for Mozartean grace . These do not redeem Pope ; they deepen him . They reinforce modern belief that ...
... friends , playfulness , a charming social self , and - cramped in between the soiled gallantries and the shrill hates — an instinct for Mozartean grace . These do not redeem Pope ; they deepen him . They reinforce modern belief that ...
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... friends of many years , and Fox - generous , if perhaps too easy - going - hoped they might continue friends . But Burke , inexorable , consummated the most celebrated of political quarrels against the historic back- ground of the House ...
... friends of many years , and Fox - generous , if perhaps too easy - going - hoped they might continue friends . But Burke , inexorable , consummated the most celebrated of political quarrels against the historic back- ground of the House ...
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