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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... looked upon as their Revolution ) was illegal , he was strik- ing at the very heart of the administration . And when he made oblique attacks on the Whig chiefs , particularly Godolphin , he was embossing treason with slander . The Whigs ...
... looked upon as their Revolution ) was illegal , he was strik- ing at the very heart of the administration . And when he made oblique attacks on the Whig chiefs , particularly Godolphin , he was embossing treason with slander . The Whigs ...
Sivu 142
... looked to his own class — at least at the outset to provide them . In writing Crusoe and Roxana , Moll Flanders and Colonel Jacque , he stuck to his plain , inelegant style , kept in view the public's love of adventure and sex ...
... looked to his own class — at least at the outset to provide them . In writing Crusoe and Roxana , Moll Flanders and Colonel Jacque , he stuck to his plain , inelegant style , kept in view the public's love of adventure and sex ...
Sivu 197
... looked to as their spokesman in England , sought for reconciliation . In- deed , it was to urge , to plead for this that Chatham came for the last time to the House of Lords - came in on a crutch , heavily supported by his son and son ...
... looked to as their spokesman in England , sought for reconciliation . In- deed , it was to urge , to plead for this that Chatham came for the last time to the House of Lords - came in on a crutch , heavily supported by his son and son ...
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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