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  1. 14. Mai 2024 · The Eccentric Mr. Brummell. Beau Brummell. From “Eccentric Personages,” 1864. By W. Russell. It is a solemn truth that every death-bed is the final scene of a great tragedy, though the death be a beggar’s, the bed one of straw. Yet to the human imagination the supreme catastrophe is magnified in its impressive terror when the ...

  2. Vor 2 Tagen · True connections are our bread and butter (the non-plastic kind) at Beau Brummell Introductions. While algorithms and well-made apps have their places, we know that real relationships are not about math or technology. Human beings and the cords that tie us together are chaotic. They’re compelling and annoying, beautiful and ugly, and gloriously flawed. We are walking contradictions and can ...

  3. 13. Mai 2024 · Find out about this colourful figure who invented the modern men’s suit, British sarcasm and quipped about the King “Who is your fat friend?’

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  4. Vor 5 Tagen · Beau Brummell, Who threaten’d last year, in a superfine passion, To cut me and bring the old king into fashion.” Brummell now, since the sword was drawn, resolved to throw away the sheath, and his hits were keen and “damaging,’ as those things are now termed. In this style he said to little Colonel M’Mahon, the Prince’s ...

  5. 20. Mai 2024 · We look upon Beau Brummell as the greatest of small wits. Indeed, he may in this respect be considered, as Cowley says of Pindar as “a species alone,” and as forming a class by himself. He has arrived at the very minimum of wit, and reduced it, “by happiness or pains,” to an almost invisible point. All his bons-mots turn upon ...

  6. Vor 5 Tagen · "Beau" Brummell, indeed, has never been equalled or paralleled since, not even by Count D'Orsay, whom he in some respects resembled. In this square died, towards the close of the last century, the eccentric son of Sir John Barnard, sometime alderman of and M.P. for London, and one of those few members whose "price" even Sir Robert Walpole could not find out.

  7. 20. Mai 2024 · And that reference to Beau Brummell was significant. It was Brummell in the early years of the 19th century who’d invented the concept of the dandy, using an obsessive attitude towards clothes as an entrée to the highest circles in the land. “A nobody, who made himself a somebody, and gave the law to everybody,” said novelist ...