Juni 28, 2010
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Our Biographia Britannica is very meagre of names bearing prefatory titles of distinction, conferred, not by kings, but by common tacit consent: Fully sensible of this deficiency, we have been making out of late, for our own amusement, a list … Weiterlesen
Juni 27, 2010
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BY MRS. POSTANS. The Parisian Dandy? Even so. The Boulevards have their vanities as well as Regent-street, and although where dress, manners, and affectations of various kinds, seem to make up the sum, end, and purpose of life with the … Weiterlesen
Juni 21, 2010
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Dandies and fops have always been ephemeral productions, and the former are now extinct, or sobered down into gentlemanly, well-dressed men. Within the last ten years, we have had some stars of considerable lustre in each department, but few survive … Weiterlesen
Juni 20, 2010
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Count Charles de Mornay was presented to me to-day. Having heard of him only as, ” The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers,” I was agreeably surprised to find him one of the … Weiterlesen
Juni 14, 2010
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Zu diesem vor kurzem verstorbenen talentvollen Dichter , geboren zu Paris am 11. Dezember 1810 , hat die zeitgenössische, französische Literatur eine ihrer edelsten Zierden verloren. In einem ihm von Edmund Texier gewidmeten Nachrufe heißt es unter Anderem: “Als Prosaiker … Weiterlesen
Juni 12, 2010
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Another German Prince figures in my reminiscences, though he claimed the title par excellence. He belonged to a very different order of prince, and of man too, to the distinguished men I have just named. This is Prince Puckler Muskau, … Weiterlesen
Juni 8, 2010
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Briefe eines Verstorbenen, &c., Tour in Germany, Holland, and England, in the years 1826, 1827, and 1828. By a German Prince. Vols. III. & IV. Stuttgart, 1831. The remaining volumes of this work have been received from Germany, and though … Weiterlesen
Juni 7, 2010
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Tutti Frutti. By Prince Puckler Muskau. 1 vol. 12mo. New York. Of this little volume, which, by the way, we have seen honored by most flaming eulogies in some of our periodical contemporaries, we can scarcely command ourselves so far … Weiterlesen
Juni 6, 2010
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Tutti Frutti. By the Author of ” The Tour of a German Prince.” Complete in one volume. New-York : Harper And Brothers. 1834. 12mo. pp. 226. This is an outlandish book, with an outlandish title: the book German, the title … Weiterlesen