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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... theatre . The coarser pen of Wycherley had already been laid aside . And Dryden , who was as much the voice of the Restoration as Wycherley was its pulse , died with the century , in 1700 . The theatre of the next age was similar , but ...
... theatre . The coarser pen of Wycherley had already been laid aside . And Dryden , who was as much the voice of the Restoration as Wycherley was its pulse , died with the century , in 1700 . The theatre of the next age was similar , but ...
Sivu 101
... theatre until it becomes totally worthless . In Steele it is simply likable and a little uninteresting — as , to my mind , Steele was himself . On such second - rate fare , poorly eked out with ex- amples of frigid “ classical " tragedy ...
... theatre until it becomes totally worthless . In Steele it is simply likable and a little uninteresting — as , to my mind , Steele was himself . On such second - rate fare , poorly eked out with ex- amples of frigid “ classical " tragedy ...
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... theatre had lacked - soon became urgent in it , and at length ubiquitous . There was nothing strange about these ... theatre , the less moral these people were in real life , the more they applauded morality on the stage . Meanwhile ...
... theatre had lacked - soon became urgent in it , and at length ubiquitous . There was nothing strange about these ... theatre , the less moral these people were in real life , the more they applauded morality on the stage . Meanwhile ...
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