Juni 27, 2010
von Melanie Grundmann
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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
von Melanie Grundmann
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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
September 14, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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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
Dezember 22, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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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
November 3, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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I. SURE ’tis hard still to love, yet despise what I love, To know him unworthy my heart; All extremes of disgust or of tenderness prove, Which pride and which fondness impart. II. If to lawless indulgence his passions incline, … Weiterlesen
Juli 26, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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What thing goes there? it looks as gay As flowers that spring in rosy May; In men’s array , what sex, I wonder? It looks as of the doubtful gender. Such glitt’ring things do often please, Like small change are … Weiterlesen
Juli 2, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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“Nemo repente fuit dandissimus.” ТHE transformation of the chrysalis into the butterfly is not more complete or surprising than that of the slovenly schoolboy into the finished civil, academic, or military dandy. The last metamorphosis is, however, more gradual than … Weiterlesen
Mai 18, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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A Poem YE gossips, skill’d in tales of dread! Staunch to old superstition’s creed! Draw near your cutty stools; I sing a ghost of wond’rous kind, Which play’d the devil, rais’d the wind, And turn’d wise men to fools. Far … Weiterlesen
Juli 29, 2007
von Melanie Grundmann
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Alfred d’Orsay is commonly known as the butterfly dandy. How this term came about might be explained by the following excerpt of “The World of London” series in the Blackwood Edinburgh Magazine from 1843. THE WORLD OF LONDON. SECOND SERIES. … Weiterlesen