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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... whole of their work.2 It was only thus that the Horace Walpoles and the George Selwyns could maintain their standing in the world . When , during Robert Walpole's ministry , the Commons , in protest against these tendencies , passed ...
... whole of their work.2 It was only thus that the Horace Walpoles and the George Selwyns could maintain their standing in the world . When , during Robert Walpole's ministry , the Commons , in protest against these tendencies , passed ...
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... whole aristocratic world ; the literary mastery of Addison encompassed a whole bourgeois point of view ; the literary mastery of Defoe encompassed a whole lower - class existence ; while Swift , with the widest mastery of all , touches ...
... whole aristocratic world ; the literary mastery of Addison encompassed a whole bourgeois point of view ; the literary mastery of Defoe encompassed a whole lower - class existence ; while Swift , with the widest mastery of all , touches ...
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... whole evening , with your frothy companions , after you are come from them ; and reflect what solid truth , what useful lesson , worthy to be inculcated in your future life , that whole evening has afforded you ; and consider , whether ...
... whole evening , with your frothy companions , after you are come from them ; and reflect what solid truth , what useful lesson , worthy to be inculcated in your future life , that whole evening has afforded you ; and consider , whether ...
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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