Juni 21, 2012
von Melanie Grundmann
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In a former volume, I have glanced at a phase of society of which I heard and saw much in my youth, but the impression it made, quite as much as its singularity, demands a more careful record now that … Weiterlesen
Juni 21, 2012
von Melanie Grundmann
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Every body has heard of Stultz who is among tailors as Rothschild among bankers — preeminent. The following from a German Zeitung, gives a graphic narrative of his progress to fame and fortune. it is so true to nature that … Weiterlesen
Februar 19, 2012
von Melanie Grundmann
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But for my consciousness of power as a coxcomb of genius, I should probably have attempted some other means of obtaining renown: for I saw clearly that the Kingdom of Dandyism was in its Lower Empire. As coming events cast … Weiterlesen
Februar 3, 2012
von Melanie Grundmann
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Ein junger, reicher Alien (Fremder), seit einiger Zeit in London wohnhaft, wo er, durch seinen Aufwand und seine gesellschaftlichen Beziehungen, ein ziemlich anständiges Haus machte, lies, um möglichst in Allem den Gebräuchen und der äussern Haltung der Bevölkerung sich beizugesellen, … Weiterlesen
März 5, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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Guardians of good! to Britain’s youth impart Some new academy to teach the heart! See Education, in these book-read times, Parent of Selfishness, dark fount of crimes! Man, plainly, of the monkey tribe appears, More copying what he sees than … Weiterlesen
Dezember 31, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE WHOLE ART OF DRESS.” Despotic thing, for ever changing, Ever bright, and ever new, Through varied maze of fancy ranging, Hail! in all, and worship you. St. James’s, an unpublished Poem. The influence of fashion … Weiterlesen
Dezember 26, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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AN EXAMINATION OF A CANDIDATE FOR A DEGREE. We understand from very excellent authority, that an University is about to be instituted in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, where the old-fashioned qualifications of classical and scientific learning are to be … 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
Dezember 13, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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IT will, perchance, set some of my readers in a puzzle to discover what connexion can exist between fashion and philosophy, especially those who are apt to confound terms, and imagine that philosophy can only be applied in the vulgar … Weiterlesen
Dezember 6, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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A Bow-Street investigation lately exhibited a happy instance of the career of one of those “elegant” coxcombs who lounge through the capital in the desperate determination to be fashionables; who poison the air with their cigars, astonish the rabble by … Weiterlesen