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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... merely in Augustan Lon- don , but at the most polished court of modern times— the Versailles of Louis XIV . He was an equally eminent profligate . His mistresses included some of the most beauti- ful , aristocratic , and expensive women ...
... merely in Augustan Lon- don , but at the most polished court of modern times— the Versailles of Louis XIV . He was an equally eminent profligate . His mistresses included some of the most beauti- ful , aristocratic , and expensive women ...
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... merely practised it to greater advantage . He discharged his masterpieces in the same mood and by the same methods that he reeled off his pamphlets and hoaxes ; and the great works are set apart from the grubby ones largely because ...
... merely practised it to greater advantage . He discharged his masterpieces in the same mood and by the same methods that he reeled off his pamphlets and hoaxes ; and the great works are set apart from the grubby ones largely because ...
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... merely undeceived ; he was profoundly informed . Hogarth no more than Fielding can create " faces imbued with ... mere obstruc- tion to a romance . Fielding did not go deep enough . Tom Jones is 282 III . HEYDAY.
... merely undeceived ; he was profoundly informed . Hogarth no more than Fielding can create " faces imbued with ... mere obstruc- tion to a romance . Fielding did not go deep enough . Tom Jones is 282 III . HEYDAY.
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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