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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... success of Italian opera , when it came , was really due , not to the music , but to the drawing power of the great Italian soloists . Taste had so far degen- erated in England that the singer outweighed the song . On the one hand ...
... success of Italian opera , when it came , was really due , not to the music , but to the drawing power of the great Italian soloists . Taste had so far degen- erated in England that the singer outweighed the song . On the one hand ...
Sivu 167
... Successful themselves , the Oxford Tories no longer demanded success for their cause . As for Oxford itself , no comparable intellectual stupor has visited it since . 2 ANY search for a representative university figure must end OXFORD ...
... Successful themselves , the Oxford Tories no longer demanded success for their cause . As for Oxford itself , no comparable intellectual stupor has visited it since . 2 ANY search for a representative university figure must end OXFORD ...
Sivu 218
... success can justify the coalition " ; and though success could not have justified it , it never had any . George III , defending morality by way of rancour , saw to that ; and Fox fell , almost like Lucifer . Thereafter , except for a ...
... success can justify the coalition " ; and though success could not have justified it , it never had any . George III , defending morality by way of rancour , saw to that ; and Fox fell , almost like Lucifer . Thereafter , except for a ...
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