The Beaux and the Dandies: Nash, Brummell, and D'Orsay with Their CourtsS. Paul, 1910 - 391 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... mind that that development was , by the very nature of the Court itself , but a coarse , sensual excellence , which expressed itself in an extravagance of colour and adornment , and an extravagance of thought and habit which was ...
... mind that that development was , by the very nature of the Court itself , but a coarse , sensual excellence , which expressed itself in an extravagance of colour and adornment , and an extravagance of thought and habit which was ...
Pagina 15
... mind to apologise for my subject ; amusement is as necessary to our health as high thinking , and if I offer frivolity for your consideration rather than saintly virtue , I am not the less offering a good thing . A person who can ...
... mind to apologise for my subject ; amusement is as necessary to our health as high thinking , and if I offer frivolity for your consideration rather than saintly virtue , I am not the less offering a good thing . A person who can ...
Pagina 22
... minds of those with whom he came in contact , and he also pos- sessed a tact which was more valuable than genius . It is said that no one has ever surpassed the Earl in the splendour of his entertainments and the costliness of his dress ...
... minds of those with whom he came in contact , and he also pos- sessed a tact which was more valuable than genius . It is said that no one has ever surpassed the Earl in the splendour of his entertainments and the costliness of his dress ...
Pagina 61
... mind as to bring about a marriage . Now Mrs. Villars was hair - dresser to Mrs. Deleau , so there was perhaps some colour for the assertion she made that she could easily settle that matter . Besides , she was not particular as to the ...
... mind as to bring about a marriage . Now Mrs. Villars was hair - dresser to Mrs. Deleau , so there was perhaps some colour for the assertion she made that she could easily settle that matter . Besides , she was not particular as to the ...
Pagina 71
... mind how it sparkled amidst the rubbish . of the mine where it was first discovered . " Steele , under the name of Simon Sleek in the Guar- dian , has a word to say upon the carelessness which went too often with finery in the days of ...
... mind how it sparkled amidst the rubbish . of the mine where it was first discovered . " Steele , under the name of Simon Sleek in the Guar- dian , has a word to say upon the carelessness which went too often with finery in the days of ...
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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.