The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsOxford University Press, 1907 - 527 pages |
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... England cleared of the giants . He had to conquer them . But we shall speak of those personages when we come before their illustrious representatives in Guildhall . This fiction of Troynovant , or New Troy , appears to have arisen from ...
... England cleared of the giants . He had to conquer them . But we shall speak of those personages when we come before their illustrious representatives in Guildhall . This fiction of Troynovant , or New Troy , appears to have arisen from ...
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... England ' , and ' merry London ' , in a sense they never have had yet . The progress of society has put an end to the melancholy absurdity of inquisitions , and star- chambers , and civil wars . The ground , therefore , is more clear ...
... England ' , and ' merry London ' , in a sense they never have had yet . The progress of society has put an end to the melancholy absurdity of inquisitions , and star- chambers , and civil wars . The ground , therefore , is more clear ...
Page 409
... England , at the sign of the White Peruke , probably the house of a fashionable French peruquier . In Swift's Works ( vol . xx . of the duodecimo edition , p . 294 ) , there is a letter to him , in English , by Voltaire , and dated from ...
... England , at the sign of the White Peruke , probably the house of a fashionable French peruquier . In Swift's Works ( vol . xx . of the duodecimo edition , p . 294 ) , there is a letter to him , in English , by Voltaire , and dated from ...
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