A guide to English literature. 3. From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Penguin Books, 1956 |
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Page 15
... continued , though at a diminishing rate , and brought , as before , opportunities for the adventurous and difficul- ties for the conservative all along the social scale . The most dynamic point in the economy was still in foreign trade ...
... continued , though at a diminishing rate , and brought , as before , opportunities for the adventurous and difficul- ties for the conservative all along the social scale . The most dynamic point in the economy was still in foreign trade ...
Page 21
... continued , and there was increasingly a private or coterie quality in the Court ; Van Dyck's portraits ( con- fined almost entirely to the Court circle ) reveal , if nothing more , the way in which Charles and his Court liked to be ...
... continued , and there was increasingly a private or coterie quality in the Court ; Van Dyck's portraits ( con- fined almost entirely to the Court circle ) reveal , if nothing more , the way in which Charles and his Court liked to be ...
Page 25
... continued Convivium Philosophale ' . How far the absentee landlordism and the de- cay of ' hospitality ' , of which both government and moralists com- plained , had gone it is impossible to say . Probably it was most marked in the home ...
... continued Convivium Philosophale ' . How far the absentee landlordism and the de- cay of ' hospitality ' , of which both government and moralists com- plained , had gone it is impossible to say . Probably it was most marked in the home ...
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