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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... things the book is not meant to be . It makes no claims to scholarship : its sources are simply the general ... things it might well have included ; yet , for the sake of emphasis , it mentions certain other things sev- eral times . Its ...
... things the book is not meant to be . It makes no claims to scholarship : its sources are simply the general ... things it might well have included ; yet , for the sake of emphasis , it mentions certain other things sev- eral times . Its ...
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... things were taught to " make waxworks , japan , paint upon glass , to raise paste , and make sweetmeats and sauces ... things which had been attained than in things yet attainable . They were possibly of that stock which innocently ...
... things were taught to " make waxworks , japan , paint upon glass , to raise paste , and make sweetmeats and sauces ... things which had been attained than in things yet attainable . They were possibly of that stock which innocently ...
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... things seemed little to Walpole , and all little things big . The truth is that because the times fitted him and lent a sheltering dignity to his frivolities , they profoundly marred him . His vain , velvety , catlike nature basked in ...
... things seemed little to Walpole , and all little things big . The truth is that because the times fitted him and lent a sheltering dignity to his frivolities , they profoundly marred him . His vain , velvety , catlike nature basked in ...
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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