August 3, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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Edward, alone, reading. Enter Harry, with an important air. Harry: HOW are you, Ned? Edward: What, is it you, brother Harry? Were it not for the small part of your face, that appears between your fore-top and your cravat, I … Weiterlesen
Juli 27, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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AT ev’ry corner, and in ev’ry street, Some gaudy, useless animal we meet, Resembling men in nothing but their shape, Their truest lineage is the friskful ape; These are distinguished by the rank and name Of Well-bread gentlemen, that notice … Weiterlesen
Juli 27, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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THEY tell me, Cotilus, that you’re a beau: What this is, Cotilus, I wish to know. “A beau is one who, with the nicest care, In parted locks divides his curling hair; One, who with balm and cinnamon smells sweet … Weiterlesen
Juli 24, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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FABLE IV. The folly of passing a hasty and derogatory judgement upon the noxious animals of the creation. ALL wise philosophers maintain Nature created nought in vain. Yet some with supercilious brow, Deny the truth asserted now. What if I … Weiterlesen
Juni 26, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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To sooth the listless hours of age, AURELIO to his books applied, And in the historian Pliny’s page This pleasing anecdote he spied. “The Snake does every year, ’tis said, “Cast off his coat of faded dyes, “And with it, … Weiterlesen
Juni 14, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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A West Indian dandy (not Bond Street alone can claim the dear exquisite thing as its own) Stood fix’d by the glass, while the new suit displays all its charms of stiff collars, short waists, and tight stays., (eyed) , … Weiterlesen
Juni 12, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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The generality of educated foreigners have but one way of characterizing the state of musical talent and taste in England. Our author forms no exception to the prevailing disparagement on this point. He says, that this country is the farthest … Weiterlesen
Mai 8, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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BY A VILLAGE BEAU. One of the greatest embarrassments to which the beau monde of a village is subject is that of being always out of fashion. The mutations of the great world are so rapid that we are utterly … Weiterlesen
Mai 3, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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fop n Fop, dandy, beau, coxcomb, exquisite, dude, buck are comparable when denoting a man who is conspicuously fashionable or elegant in dress or manners. Fop is applied to a man who is preposterously concerned with fashionableness, elegance and refinement … Weiterlesen
April 27, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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At the suggestion of a fair correspondent, CHARLOTTE, we give a place to the following article, from the Champion. From the manners and customs of a country much may be estimated concerning the character of its natives, ‘for this reason, … Weiterlesen