The Beaux and the Dandies: Nash, Brummell, and D'Orsay with Their CourtsS. Paul, 1910 - 391 pagina's |
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Pagina 21
... wealth from King James . He showed no great talent or capacity ; indeed , if we except his lack of wit , he was a Beau pure and simple , depending for his success upon his dress , his magnificence , and his manners . He possessed a natural.
... wealth from King James . He showed no great talent or capacity ; indeed , if we except his lack of wit , he was a Beau pure and simple , depending for his success upon his dress , his magnificence , and his manners . He possessed a natural.
Pagina 22
Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold. magnificence , and his manners . He possessed a natural elegance , taste , and sweetness of disposition , which made him attractive not only to the eyes but to the minds of those with whom he came in ...
Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold. magnificence , and his manners . He possessed a natural elegance , taste , and sweetness of disposition , which made him attractive not only to the eyes but to the minds of those with whom he came in ...
Pagina 31
... manners . Killigrew wagered him a hundred pounds that the King would be in the Council chamber in less than half an hour . Swayed by two emotions , the desire to win the wager and anger that a man like Killigrew should presume to ...
... manners . Killigrew wagered him a hundred pounds that the King would be in the Council chamber in less than half an hour . Swayed by two emotions , the desire to win the wager and anger that a man like Killigrew should presume to ...
Pagina 35
... manners were both courteous and affable ; he was born for gallantry and magnificence ; his wit never failed , except when it descended into buffoonery ; in fact , like Chesterfield of later fame , he could never restrain his talent for ...
... manners were both courteous and affable ; he was born for gallantry and magnificence ; his wit never failed , except when it descended into buffoonery ; in fact , like Chesterfield of later fame , he could never restrain his talent for ...
Pagina 46
... room with black . " The very candles , her fans , and tea - table wore the livery of grief ; she refused all manner of sustenance , and was so Grief and Flattery 47 averse to the thought of living 46 The Beaux and the Dandies.
... room with black . " The very candles , her fans , and tea - table wore the livery of grief ; she refused all manner of sustenance , and was so Grief and Flattery 47 averse to the thought of living 46 The Beaux and the Dandies.
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Alfred d'Orsay Almack's amusement appearance asked ball Bath Beau Brummell Beau Nash Beau's beautiful Beaux became Brummell Brummell's Caen Calais called carriage Charles Charles James Fox Chesterfield clothes club coat Count d'Orsay Court D'Orsay's dance Dandies death dine dinner Dodington door dress Duchess Duke Earl England extravagant face fashion favour Feilding followed fortune gave gentleman George Selwyn give Gronow guineas Hervey Horace Walpole James's Killigrew King knew lace Lady Blessington later laugh lived London look Lord Alvanley Lord Blessington Lord Byron Lord Hervey Macaronis madam manners marriage married Mathews never night once Paris play poor Prince Queen Raikes remark replied Richard Nash royal says Sedley sent silk snuff snuff-box story Street tell thing Thomas Raikes thought told took town waistcoat Walpole Watier's wife wore writing wrote young
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Pagina 34 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 147 - Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Pagina 147 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks...
Pagina 28 - There is a good, honest, able man, that I could name, that if your Majesty would employ, and command to see all things well executed, all things would soon be mended; and this is one Charles Stuart, who now spends his time in employing his lips about the Court, and hath no other employment ; but if you would give him this employment, he were the fittest man in the world to perform it.
Pagina 53 - My dear Mistress has a heart Soft as those kind looks she gave me ; When, with love's resistless art, And her eyes, she did enslave me ; But her constancy's so weak, She's so wild and apt to wander, That my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.
Pagina 331 - Journal, which is a very extraordinary production *, and of a most melancholy truth in all that regards high life in England. I know, or knew personally, most of the personages and societies which he describes ; and after reading his remarks, have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday. I would however plead in behalf of some few exceptions, which I will mention by and by.
Pagina 147 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Pagina 16 - I was invited, methought, to the dissection of a beau's head and of a coquette's heart, which were both of them laid on a table before us. An imaginary operator opened the first with a great deal of nicety; which upon a cursory and superficial view appeared like the head of another man; but upon applying our glasses to it, we made a very odd discovery, namely, that what we looked upon as brains were not such in reality, but a heap of strange materials wound up in that shape and texture, and packed...
Pagina 147 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
Pagina 17 - ... philosophers suppose to be the seat of the soul, smelt very strong of essence and orange-flower water, and was encompassed with a kind of horny substance, cut into a thousand little faces or mirrors, which were imperceptible to the naked eye, insomuch that the soul, if there had been any here, must have been always taken up in contemplating her own beauties.