Mai 22, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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Theophrastus confined himself to more certain grounds of observation, taken from facts which came within his own experience; and it is curious to remark, how little the twenty-one centuries, which have elapsed since he wrote, have added to our knowledge … Weiterlesen
Mai 22, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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But I now turned my eyes to the tall thin young man. He was a Dandy, a complete Dandy; and, as every one in high life knows what a Dandy is, I shall not further describe him. He was counting … Weiterlesen
Mai 22, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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Mr. Heneage was of the rising order of dull dandies: he had just sufficient volition to choose his calling, and sufficient energy to iron the cravat that indicated it: he spoke little, because he had nothing to say, and would … Weiterlesen
Mai 19, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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I HAD the misfortune to dine alone yesterday, (an evil which sometimes occurs to us bachelors,) and, having nothing better to do in the evening, I took down a volume of Johnson and Steevens’s Shakspeare, to pass away the time … Weiterlesen
Mai 18, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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THE comparative value of this perishable commodity, at Paris or at New-York, is a matter of necessary knowledge which we might have expected to see dwelt upon before now. As far as we know, however, this important statistic has been … Weiterlesen
Mai 18, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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This is a dandy peer; but, like most of the confraternity, has got aground, and owes to his title the privilege of saying, what brother Dumbell and many others, cannot; namely, “nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus.” But so incomplete does … Weiterlesen
Mai 18, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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A Poem YE gossips, skill’d in tales of dread! Staunch to old superstition’s creed! Draw near your cutty stools; I sing a ghost of wond’rous kind, Which play’d the devil, rais’d the wind, And turn’d wise men to fools. Far … Weiterlesen
Mai 17, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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Lord P-r-m, the delicate dandy. Laced up in stays to show his waist, And highly rouged to show his taste, His whiskers meeting ‘neath his chin, With gooseberry eye and ghastly grin, With mincing steps, conceited phrase, Such as insipid … Weiterlesen
Mai 17, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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“What straps, ropes, steel, the aching ribs compress To make the Dandy , beautifully less! Thus fools, their final stake of folly cast, By instinct to strait waistcoats come at last.” TO THE EDITOR. SIR, As you live so far … Weiterlesen
Mai 15, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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This creature has long been known in England, and upon the continent, though hitherto regarded as a rarity in Scotland. Of late, however, they have become wonderfully common: and you will now meet with one or more of them in … Weiterlesen