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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... produced a crisis in English life , but it first produced a schism among the Whigs . It brought out everything latent in the opposition's two great leaders : everything reactionary in Burke , everything liberal - minded in Fox . The two ...
... produced a crisis in English life , but it first produced a schism among the Whigs . It brought out everything latent in the opposition's two great leaders : everything reactionary in Burke , everything liberal - minded in Fox . The two ...
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... produced more than twenty of the plays , and turned a growing vogue for Shakespeare's work into a fixed tradition . It would , to be sure , have been better had he remained content with producing Shakespeare and interpreting his roles ...
... produced more than twenty of the plays , and turned a growing vogue for Shakespeare's work into a fixed tradition . It would , to be sure , have been better had he remained content with producing Shakespeare and interpreting his roles ...
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... produced genuinely unsentimental comedy ; whereas Sheridan , however superior in talent , for the most part sim- ply produced satire . The one took the line of ridicule , but the other set an example . Sheridan was fully a man of the ...
... produced genuinely unsentimental comedy ; whereas Sheridan , however superior in talent , for the most part sim- ply produced satire . The one took the line of ridicule , but the other set an example . Sheridan was fully a man of the ...
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