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 22, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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But I now turned my eyes to the tall thin young man. He was a Dandy, a complete Dandy; and, as every one in high life knows what a Dandy is, I shall not further describe him. He was counting … Weiterlesen
Mai 17, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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“What straps, ropes, steel, the aching ribs compress To make the Dandy , beautifully less! Thus fools, their final stake of folly cast, By instinct to strait waistcoats come at last.” TO THE EDITOR. SIR, As you live so far … Weiterlesen
Mai 11, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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THERE is a class of travelling oddities , the dandy voyageurs of Britain, who, teeming with the proud consciousness of their excellence in comparison with the rest of human kind, swoln with self-sufficiency, float like empty bubbles on the water’s … 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
Mai 2, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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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
von Melanie Grundmann
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BUT Stultz sometimes exports a dandy over, Or, in more modern phrase, an exquisite, (Being delicate, they always cross by Dover,) To show us exiles how a coat should fit. Now don’t mistake, or think I mean to cover This … Weiterlesen
April 28, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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I HAVE just come to town, what a horrible place! , Surely Regent Street’s got the blue devils; And in Waterloo-place you may challenge a race, Once the scene of our pastime and revels. ‘Tis a positive bore to be … Weiterlesen
April 19, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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A youth of follies, an old age of cares : Young, yet enervate ; old, yet never wise ; Vice wastes their vigour, and their mind impairs., Lowth. MANY are the men whose lives are made up of such trifles, … Weiterlesen
April 19, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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I CANNOT better exemplify the truth of the above lines, or more pointedly prove that what is a pillow of thorns to one is a bed of roses to another, than by copying literally a letter of a young relation, … Weiterlesen