Juli 31, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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Nothing is more unfeeling than a fop, nor any animal more selfish. A ball, a horserace, a new dancer, the latest fashion, interests him more than anything of real importance. The mind of a fop, regardless of what is valuable, … 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 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 26, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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SlR, I HAVE been for a long while wondering that you have never lifted your pen to chastise a tribe of beings who make very pestilent inroads upon the comfort of society; namely, our village and country foplings. Probably your … 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
Juni 30, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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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
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
Juni 8, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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We have already in more than one instance shown our wish to treat gentlemen of the Dandy cast with candour and fairness. But it must be recollected that in our first number we avowed a determination not to be partisans … Weiterlesen
Mai 22, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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Theophrastus confined himself to more certain grounds of observation, taken from facts which came within his own experience; and it is curious to remark, how little the twenty-one centuries, which have elapsed since he wrote, have added to our knowledge … Weiterlesen