Oktober 14, 2007
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In 1772 came a periodical for the smart young man of the day, entitled the Maccaroni Magazine, or Monthly Intelligence of the Fashions and Diversions. The maccaroni proper flourished only for a brief period, from 1770 to 1773, and by … Weiterlesen
Oktober 14, 2007
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At Crockford’s, the Queen of the gaming-clubs, as much as L20.000 had been known to be lost and won in a single evening. Crockford himself had risen from making his living as a small fishmonger to presiding as ‘the Scourge … Weiterlesen
Oktober 13, 2007
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Nature had by no means formed Nash for beau. His person was clumsy, large, and awkward; his features were harsh, strong, and peculiarly irregular; yet even with these disadvantages he made love, became an universal admirer of the sex, and … Weiterlesen
Oktober 13, 2007
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Mr. Grey was a gentleman who had succeeded, when the heat of youth was over, to the enjoyment of a life estate of some two thousand a year. Grey, to the astonishment of his former friends, the wits, made an … Weiterlesen
Oktober 13, 2007
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(According to our daily paper, sloppy untidiness is to be the fashion this year.) I’ve jibed at Dame Fashion for many a year, Jibed bitterly rather than gaily; And over the follies of feminine wear I indulged in a diatribe … Weiterlesen
Oktober 11, 2007
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All these exquisites wore white hats lined with crimson, in consequence of the head of the all-influential Emilius von Aslingen having, on the preceding day, been kept sacred from the profaning air by that most tasteful covering. The young lords … Weiterlesen
Oktober 9, 2007
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I have observed that the distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least: they eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in … Weiterlesen
Oktober 9, 2007
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Pelham, the protagonist of Edward Bulwer Lytton’s so-called novel, at one point meets Russelton, who is modeled after the original dandy Beau Brummell. Mr. Russelton. At the name of the person thus introduced to me a thousand recollections crowded upon … Weiterlesen
Oktober 8, 2007
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Tremaine, or the man of refinement by Robert Plumer Ward was published in 1826 and is one of the three fashionable novels that became to be most widely known as dandy novels; the other two being Benjamin Disraeli’s Vivian Grey … Weiterlesen
Oktober 8, 2007
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LORD Viscount St. Clair had been bred at Eton, and afterwards at Cambridge. At the first of these he learned to construe most of the odes of Horace ; at the last, he took an honorary degree. He afterwards travelled … Weiterlesen