George Crabbe: An English Life, 1754-1832Pimlico, 2004 - 373 Seiten The English poet George Crabbe, best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, clergyman, botanist, and novelist. An ambitious, resourceful, self-made professional man, he devoted his middle years to his children and his increasingly ill wife, after whose death he embarked, at 60, on an astonishing second life. This new biography charts Crabbe’s progress from an impoverished provincial childhood to the excitement and sophistication of late 18th-century London; through his career as a ducal chaplain and country parson whose addictions included theater-going and opium; to his final years when, as a rector, he traveled widely, met major literary figures, and fell in love with some remarkable young women. |
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... Duke's . ' Men of the old race , sir : people whom the old Duke was in the habit of seeing and for some of them had done something and had he yet lived , all had their chance . They now make way for us but keep up a sort of connection ...
... Duke's . ' Men of the old race , sir : people whom the old Duke was in the habit of seeing and for some of them had done something and had he yet lived , all had their chance . They now make way for us but keep up a sort of connection ...
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... Duke was not a particularly subtle man , so it worked . - No sooner had the Duke decided to let Crabbe have his way than the scheme began to unravel . Up popped Sir William Welby , formerly MP for Grantham and now Lord of the Manor at ...
... Duke was not a particularly subtle man , so it worked . - No sooner had the Duke decided to let Crabbe have his way than the scheme began to unravel . Up popped Sir William Welby , formerly MP for Grantham and now Lord of the Manor at ...
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... Duke of Rutland 18 Manners , John Henry , 5th Duke of Rutland 113 , 157 , 207 , 245 , 246 , 247-8 , 249 , 250 , 255 , 259 , 277 , 278 , 285 , 325 , 334 Manners , Lord Robert ( brother of 4th Duke ) 90 , 109–10 Manners , Lord Robert ...
... Duke of Rutland 18 Manners , John Henry , 5th Duke of Rutland 113 , 157 , 207 , 245 , 246 , 247-8 , 249 , 250 , 255 , 259 , 277 , 278 , 285 , 325 , 334 Manners , Lord Robert ( brother of 4th Duke ) 90 , 109–10 Manners , Lord Robert ...
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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