August 1, 2010
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M. le comte d’Orsay, beau-frère de M. le duc de Grammont, et gendre de l’éminent écrivain anglais, lady Blessington, est beaucoup plus illustre en Angleterre que chez nous. Pendant quinze ans il a joué, à Londres, le premier rôle de … 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
Oktober 11, 2009
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We claim to rank among those fortunately constituted individuals who are content, under ordinary circumstances, to leave Politics to politicians by profession. Politics, like Poetry, Punning, or Pin-making, is a trade; and we have an instinctive horror of anything which … Weiterlesen
Oktober 10, 2009
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National sports and pastimes may be said to arise out of circumstances of climate and government; just as certain plants and trees are indigenous to the soil. Few of them will bear transplantation to other latitudes. The Montagnet Busses, so … Weiterlesen
September 14, 2009
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There is a noble German ballad, written (if we remember rightly}- by a certain Von Zedlitz (Powder), which describes, with all the weird imagination of a Doré, how at the twelfth hour of the night a little ghostly drummer once … Weiterlesen
August 3, 2009
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Tortoni’s, the last survivor of whose founders died only the other day, has its historical reminiscences. Therein is to be found the salon, known as the “blue salon,” once hallowed by the occupancy of M. de Talleyrand. The window is … Weiterlesen
April 26, 2009
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TAKEN FROM THE RING IN HYDE PARK. There is nothing else in nature or in art, nor even in art and nature united, that may compare with the Ring in Hyde Park on a fine Sunday at four o’clock, P.m., … Weiterlesen
Februar 24, 2009
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(Schluß.) Der Fürst im Modenreiche ist gegenwärtig unstreitig, und schon seit mehreren Jahren, Graf d’Orsay. Sein Ruhm ist über alle Anfechtung erhaben; schon ehe er nach London kam, hatte er seine Proben an den Höfen von ganz Europa mit Glanz … Weiterlesen
Dezember 22, 2008
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It is amusing to walk down Regent street in the height of the London season, and see the changes that each year produces in the costume of the promenaders; to speculate on the impression the fashions of the day would … Weiterlesen
Mai 5, 2008
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WE had a flourish of fancy or two (for which this page was reserved) on the subject of dandyism in New-York, , apropos of the picture of Count D’Orsay, the dandy par excellence of Europe, which we give in this … Weiterlesen