September 8, 2008
von mgr
Keine Kommentare
Bath. My dear little Boy, IF there is a lawful and proper object of raillery, it seems to be a coxcomb, as an usurper of the common rights of mankind: but here some precautions are necessary. Some wit, and great … Weiterlesen
September 8, 2008
von mgr
Keine Kommentare
FOR THE LADIES? LITERARY CABINET. DEBATES FOR THE LADIES. QUERY. , Which is most disgusting to a woman of sense, a coxcomb, a sot, or an illiterate clown? Capt. Rattle. , It appears to me, gentlemen, that the question now … Weiterlesen
September 6, 2008
von mgr
Keine Kommentare
But one of the most amusing parts of our author’s work, is his chapter upon coxcombry (fatuité) and though we have frequently seen it discussed in moral works, we did not expect to see this frivolous depravity of our nature … Weiterlesen
September 6, 2008
von mgr
Keine Kommentare
THAT man must daily wiser grow, Whose search is bent himself to know; Impartially he weighs his scope, And on firm reason founds his hope; He tries his strength before the race, And never seeks his own disgrace; He knows … Weiterlesen
September 6, 2008
von mgr
Keine Kommentare
Fop, n. a vain man, a coxcomb foppery, n. manners or dress of a fop Foppish, a. vain, gaudy, fool Foppishly, ad. in a foppish manner Foppishness, n. foppish dress Quoted from: Noah Webster: A Dictionary for Primary Schools. New … Weiterlesen
September 5, 2008
von mgr
Keine Kommentare
definition: An empty-headed, vain person. The ancient licensed jesters were so called because they wore a cock’s comb in their caps. “Coxcombs, an ever empty race, Are trumpets of their own disgrace.” source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) ________ … Weiterlesen
September 5, 2008
von mgr
Keine Kommentare
The Tatler writes about the Beau: PRIGS AND BEAUX From my own Apartment, December 5, 1709. THERE is nothing (that) gives a man a greater satisfaction than the sense of having dispatched a great deal of business, especially when it … Weiterlesen
September 5, 2008
von mgr
Keine Kommentare
definition: attendant, suitor of a lady; a man who attends excessively to dress, etiquette, etc.; a fop; a dandy see also: the beau monde, the fashionable world; the beau idéal, the ideal beauty, beautifulness as an abstract ideal; the sense … Weiterlesen
September 4, 2008
von mgr
Keine Kommentare
But though the French are justly chargeable with this fault, they are exempt from another of an opposite character, but equally offensive to good taste, which now seems fairly to have become the vice of English society, and is finding … Weiterlesen
September 1, 2008
von mgr
Keine Kommentare
Another of this illustrious junto is Billy Bachelor, an old unmarried petit-maitre. Billy is a courtier of ancient standing; he abounds in anecdotes not of the freshest date, nor altogether of the most interesting sort; for he will tell you … Weiterlesen