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All in a Garden Fair, the Simple Story of Three Boys and a Girl. E-book. Formato PDF Walter Besant - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
All the young men of this country go to China or to London,' said Hector, with the air of one who has made a new epigram, and thinks it ought to be remembered. And the girls all wait at home, I suppose said Claire with a Sigh. The statue Of Patience, my daughter,' replied her father, 'has her lips closed, her eyes fixed, her head a little on one side, and one forefinger raised. She does not talk, she does not grumble; she waits.'
London. E-book. Formato PDF Walter Besant - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
As regards the Tudor period, the wealth of illustration is astonishing. One might as well be writing of the city life of this day, so copious are the materials. But it is not to Shake speare and the dramatists that we must look for the details so much as to the minor writers, the moralists and satirists, Of whom the ordinary world knows nothing. The reign of Charles II. Directs one to the Plague and to the Fire. I was fortunate in finding two tracts, one dealing with the plague Of 1603, and the other with that of 1625. These, though they are earlier than Charles II., were invaluable, as illustrating the effect of the pestilence in causing an exodus of all who could get away, which took place as much in these earlier years as in 1666. Contemporary tracts on the state of London after the Fire, also happily discovered, proved useful. And when the Plague and the Fire had been dismissed, another extraordinary piece of good fortune put me in possession of certain household accounts which enabled me to present a bourgeois family of the period at home.