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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... manners , it is not politeness ; in behaviour , it is not ad- dress ; but it is a little like them all . It can only belong to people of a certain race , who live in a certain manner , with certain persons who have not certain virtues ...
... manners , it is not politeness ; in behaviour , it is not ad- dress ; but it is a little like them all . It can only belong to people of a certain race , who live in a certain manner , with certain persons who have not certain virtues ...
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... manners that interest him , and manners that he is brilliantly qualified to portray . Except historically , Goldsmith's plays have not the slightest importance : they are merely diverting . They offer no great insight into character and ...
... manners that interest him , and manners that he is brilliantly qualified to portray . Except historically , Goldsmith's plays have not the slightest importance : they are merely diverting . They offer no great insight into character and ...
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... Manner ( 1929 ) and Grand Right and Left ( 1952 ) ; Kings and Des- perate Men ( 1942 ) ; The Thread of Laughter ( 1952 ) , Com- pany Manners ( 1954 ) , The Republic of Letters ( 1955 ) , Marlborough's Duchess ( 1958 ) ; and several ...
... Manner ( 1929 ) and Grand Right and Left ( 1952 ) ; Kings and Des- perate Men ( 1942 ) ; The Thread of Laughter ( 1952 ) , Com- pany Manners ( 1954 ) , The Republic of Letters ( 1955 ) , Marlborough's Duchess ( 1958 ) ; and several ...
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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