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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... women come down to us from the first quarter of the century except Sarah , Lady Mary , and perhaps Gay's Duchess of Queensberry . Swift , to be sure , was always paying calls on London women of fashion and writing well of them to Stella ...
... women come down to us from the first quarter of the century except Sarah , Lady Mary , and perhaps Gay's Duchess of Queensberry . Swift , to be sure , was always paying calls on London women of fashion and writing well of them to Stella ...
Sivu 73
... women , both among themselves and in mixed company , was — as is well known - extremely free . There is no reason , indeed , for calling it anything other than foul - mouthed . Lady Mary , who though a coarse was not a vulgar woman ...
... women , both among themselves and in mixed company , was — as is well known - extremely free . There is no reason , indeed , for calling it anything other than foul - mouthed . Lady Mary , who though a coarse was not a vulgar woman ...
Sivu 76
... women , and its indomitable Sarah cutting across the bias ; but no true salonnières , no accredited bluestock- ings . The more fortunate women of good birth were turned loose on the elegant trifles of the town ; the less fortunate had ...
... women , and its indomitable Sarah cutting across the bias ; but no true salonnières , no accredited bluestock- ings . The more fortunate women of good birth were turned loose on the elegant trifles of the town ; the less fortunate had ...
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