Oktober 16, 2010
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I have for some time put been visited by unpleasant suspicions that I belonged to the unfortunate class called Dandies. Of late my apprehensions have become so strong, in consequence of many significant winks and shrugs > directed at me … Weiterlesen
August 14, 2008
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A BUCK OF THE FIRST HEAD. One who in debauchery surpasses the rest of his companions, a blood or choice spirit. There are in London divers lodges or societies of Bucks, formed in imitation of the Free Masons: one was … Weiterlesen
August 3, 2008
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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 14, 2008
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No insect has delighted me more than the Gnat. In my boyhood, the shrill sound of its tiny horn was sufficient to conjure up a thousand visions of elves and fairies, and even now that sound will remind me of … Weiterlesen
Juni 30, 2008
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To the Editor of the Sporting Magazine. SIR, I Read in your Number for September, a letter on dandyism, signed, A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, and I readily agree that dandyism is a disgrace to manhood; I also most freely admit that … Weiterlesen
Mai 3, 2008
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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
Mai 2, 2008
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“Pon honor.” Neither Cuvier, nor Goldsmith, nor any other naturalist, has mentioned in his work an animal of the dandy genus; and yet it deserves a place in the list of Dame Nature’s prolific offspring, as being a singular compound … Weiterlesen
Mai 1, 2008
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THERE is an object in nature to which scarcely any human being ever extended, or ever dreamt of extending, the smallest portion of sympathy or compassion; and yet there are a few that have, in reality, a stronger claim on … Weiterlesen
März 30, 2008
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LE CHAPITRE DES CHAPEAUX. Les hommes changent avec le temps ; chaque siècle donne aux peuples européens une physionomie particulière et différente de ce qu’elle avait été le siècle d’avant; chacun se ressemble aussi peu à lui-même à ses divers … Weiterlesen
März 23, 2008
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PLEBEIANS avaunt! I have alter’d my plan, Metamorphos’d completely, behold A FINE MAN! That is, throughout Town, I am grown quite the rage, The meteor of Fashion, the Buck of the age. Politeness, of course, having thrown on the shelf, … Weiterlesen