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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... seems to have been in any sense great . They were highly successful , however , and lived in splendid luxury . The profession itself , judging by its standard fee of a guinea a house visit , appears to have been well paid . There were ...
... seems to have been in any sense great . They were highly successful , however , and lived in splendid luxury . The profession itself , judging by its standard fee of a guinea a house visit , appears to have been well paid . There were ...
Sivu 267
... seems to have produced a host of bad plays and to have made many of them , besides Shakespeare's , worse by touching them up . He had great success with works like Kelly's False Delicacy , while refusing to consider Gold- smith's Good ...
... seems to have produced a host of bad plays and to have made many of them , besides Shakespeare's , worse by touching them up . He had great success with works like Kelly's False Delicacy , while refusing to consider Gold- smith's Good ...
Sivu 277
... seem foolish , highfalutin , and unreal . We have lost the acute sense of evil , as well as the sense of disproportion ... seems 1 1 Diderot , Rousseau , Goethe , and Balzac were all deeply im- pressed by the book , and Musset called it ...
... seem foolish , highfalutin , and unreal . We have lost the acute sense of evil , as well as the sense of disproportion ... seems 1 1 Diderot , Rousseau , Goethe , and Balzac were all deeply im- pressed by the book , and Musset called it ...
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