 A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically consecrated to this one object, the wearing of Clothes wisely and well :...  The Yale Literary Magazine - Sida 331836Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 292 sidor
...FIEST, touching Dandies, let us consider, with some scientific strictness, what a Dandy specially is. A Dandy is a Clotheswearing Man, a Man whose trade, office, and existence consists in ths wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically consecrated... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 sidor
...FIRST, touching Dandies, let us consider, with some scientific strictness, what a Dandy specially is. A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consist in the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse and person is heroically... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 sidor
...FIRST, touching Dandies, let us consider, with some scientific strictness, what a Dandy specially is. A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consist in the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse and person is heroically... | |
 | Maude Radford Warren - 1903 - 408 sidor
...the class to which it belongs (man), and the respects in which the dandy differs from other men : " A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence is the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse and person is heroically consecrated... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 sidor
...equalizes all the muscles at once. — Richter. Those move easiest who have learned to dance. — Pope. A dandy is a clothes-wearing man — a man whose trade, office and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his >onL spirit, person and purse is heroically... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - 1905 - 314 sidor
...tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something." Here are some of his definitions : — " A dandy is a clothes-wearing man, — a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes." "Genius means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1906 - 324 sidor
...strictness, what a Dandy specially is. A Dandy is a Clotheswearing Man, a Man whose trade, qffice, and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes....writes his enormous Volume to demonstrate, has sprung up in the intellect of the Dandy, without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with Cloth,... | |
 | E Alston Wilkes - 1907 - 250 sidor
...and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object — the...that as others dress to live, he lives to dress." One sad object in this world is a povertystricken dandy who is not able to buy the clothes to wear,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1908 - 516 sidor
...FIRST, touching Dandies, let us consider, with some scientific strictness, what a Dandy specially is. A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade,...writes his enormous Volume to demonstrate, has sprung up in the intellect of the Dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with Cloth,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1908 - 352 sidor
...FIRST, touching Dandies, let us consider, with some scientific strictness, what a Dandy specially is. A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade,...writes his enormous Volume to demonstrate, has sprung up in the intellect of the Dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius ; he is inspired with Cloth,... | |
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