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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... lived close to the City gates , with mansions around Covent Garden or in the Strand , or with com- fortable quarters over their shops and offices . The move- ment was only then afoot to spread fashionably westward . In the course of ...
... lived close to the City gates , with mansions around Covent Garden or in the Strand , or with com- fortable quarters over their shops and offices . The move- ment was only then afoot to spread fashionably westward . In the course of ...
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... lived ( and died ) in much less danger of being misunderstood as a man . Each mirrored the decadent high society ... lived in an age when that temperament received thought- ful handling , and was saved by other men's courtesy from ...
... lived ( and died ) in much less danger of being misunderstood as a man . Each mirrored the decadent high society ... lived in an age when that temperament received thought- ful handling , and was saved by other men's courtesy from ...
Sivu 149
... lived rooted as his father had done . Traditions reach- ing back to pagan times , merged with centuries - old tradi- tions of the Church , still dictated the tenor of life . You lived wherever it was that you farmed , or fished , or ...
... lived rooted as his father had done . Traditions reach- ing back to pagan times , merged with centuries - old tradi- tions of the Church , still dictated the tenor of life . You lived wherever it was that you farmed , or fished , or ...
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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