 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1863 - 732 páginas
...presumption and insolence of his conduct, and exhorted him to bear himself more humbly, he answered, " My dear Lady Hester, if I were to do as you advise...do you think I could stand in the middle of the pit of the opera " — in Brummell's day " Fops' Alley " was the fashion, and stalls were not — " and... | |
 | James Graham Marquis of Montrose, Henry Winsor - 1861 - 416 páginas
...him to task one day for his presumption, and exhorted him to bear himself more humbly. He replied: "My dear Lady Hester, if I were to do as you advise, do you think 1 could stand in the middle of the pit at the opera, and beckon to Lorn (Duke of Argyle)... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 páginas
...you, but I had no hot water." This man was at the head of the aristocracy. " I can stand," he said, " in the middle of the pit at the opera, and beckon to Lome (sixth Duke of Argyle) on one side, and Villiers (Lord Jersey) on the other, and see them, come to... | |
 | William Jesse - 1886 - 450 páginas
...gaiety and good-nature to lower boys were felt and acknowledged. He must have left Eton early in 1794 ; he had then a high nose, which was broken down by...middle of the pit at the opera, and beckon to Lome 1 on one side, and Villicrs 2 on the other, and see them come to me ? " I also recollect being told... | |
 | Roger Boutet de Monvel, Mary Craven - 1908 - 250 páginas
...Another day, when Lady Hester had been urging him to be more modest, " My dear Lady Hester," he replied, "if I were to do as you advise me, do you think I...pit at the Opera and beckon to Lome on one side and Villiers on the other, and see them come to mef" (Jesse, The Life of Beau Brummell, p. 531.) 50 arranged.... | |
 | Roger Boutet de Monvel - 1908 - 246 páginas
...Another day, when Lady Hester had been urging him to be more modest, " My dear Lady Hester," he replied, "if I were to do as you advise me, do you think I...in the middle of the pit at the Opera and beckon to Lorne on one side and Villiers on the other, and see them come to met" (Jesse, The Life of Beau Brummell,... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 736 páginas
...presumption and insolence of his conduct, and exhorted him to bear himself more humbly, he answered, " My dear Lady Hester, if I were to do as you advise...do you think I could stand in the middle of the pit of the opera " — in Brummell' s day " Fops' Alley " was the fashion, and stalls were not — " and... | |
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I was often fagged by him, and his gaiety and good nature to lower boys were felt and acknowledged. " He must have left Eton early in 1794 ; he had then a high nose, which was broken down by a kick from a horse soon after he went into the Tenth Dragoons,... 