Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... Horace Walpole wondered what Charles Fox would do " when he had gambled away the estates of all his friends . ” Virtually no one in the great world was ex- empt from the itch to play , or from the punishment of los- ing . It was the ...
... Horace Walpole wondered what Charles Fox would do " when he had gambled away the estates of all his friends . ” Virtually no one in the great world was ex- empt from the itch to play , or from the punishment of los- ing . It was the ...
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... Horace Walpole , Gray , and Cowper , poured their person- ality , their special savour , their prejudices , and their wit into their letters , never relaxing - though some of them wrote with an eye to posterity — their concern for whom ...
... Horace Walpole , Gray , and Cowper , poured their person- ality , their special savour , their prejudices , and their wit into their letters , never relaxing - though some of them wrote with an eye to posterity — their concern for whom ...
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... Horace Walpole , who , with idle cleverness , was himself fabricating a mediæval world in which everything clanked and shivered and groaned . Percy went back to the old ballads and some later poetry , bringing them together in the ...
... Horace Walpole , who , with idle cleverness , was himself fabricating a mediæval world in which everything clanked and shivered and groaned . Percy went back to the old ballads and some later poetry , bringing them together in the ...
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