 Highland reel, formed the school of the dancing-master, and the evening recreation of the British youth even in the first circles. But peace was drawing near, foreigners were arriving, and the taste for continental customs and manners became the order...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 831878Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Raikes - France - 1856 - 406 pages
...arriving, and the taste for continental customs and manners became the order of the day. The young Duke of Devonshire, as the magnus Apollo of the drawing-rooms...was at the head of these innovations ; and when the kitchen dance became exploded at Devonshire House, it could not long be expected to maintain its footing... | |
 | Thomas Raikes - France - 1856 - 470 pages
...arriving, and the taste for continental customs and manners became the order of the day. The young Duke of Devonshire, as the magnus Apollo of the drawing-rooms...was at the head of these innovations ; and when the kitchen dance became exploded at Devonshire House, it could not long be expected to maintain its footing... | |
 | Thomas Raikes - France - 1856 - 404 pages
...arriving, and the taste for continental customs and manners became the order of the day. The young Duke of Devonshire, as the magnus Apollo of the drawing-rooms...was at the head of these innovations ; and when the kitchen dance became exploded at Devonshire House, it could not long be expected to maintain its footing... | |
 | Thomas Raikes - France - 1856 - 416 pages
...Apollo of the drawing-rooms in London, was at the head of these innovations ; and when the hitchen dance became exploded at Devonshire House, it could not long be expected to maintain its footing even in the less celebrated assemblies. In London, fashion is or was then everything. Old and young... | |
 | Ellis Cornelia Knight - 1875 - 380 pages
...arriving, and the taste for continental customs and manners became the order of the day. The young Duke of Devonshire, as the magnus Apollo of the drawing-rooms...was at the head of these innovations ; and when the hitchen dance became exploded at Devonshire House, it could not long be expected to maintain its footing... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - England - 1881 - 946 pages
...the drawing-rooms in London, was at the head of these innovations. In London fashion is, or was then, everything. Old and young returned to school, and...the park were now absorbed at home in practising the figures of a French quadrille, or whirling a chair round the room to learn the step and measure of... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - Great Britain - 1881 - 464 pages
...Scotch steps, and an occasional Highland reel, formed the school of the dancing-master. The young Duke of Devonshire, as the magnus Apollo of the drawing-rooms in London, was at the head of these innovations. In London fashion is, or was then, everything. Old and young returned to school, and the mornings which... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1881 - 642 pages
...arriving ; and the taste for continental customs and manners became the order of the day. The young Duke of Devonshire, as the "Magnus Apollo" of the drawing-rooms in London, was at the head of the innovations ; and as the card-playing dowagers with their quadrille, whist, and macao went out,... | |
 | Ellis Cornelia Knight, Thomas Raikes - 1876 - 384 pages
...continental customs and manners became the order of the day. The young Duke of Devonshire, as the magmas Apollo of the drawing-rooms in London, was at the head of these innovations ; and when the hitchen dance became exploded at Devonshire House, it could not long be expected to maintain its footing... | |
 | Scotland - 1878 - 798 pages
...arriving, and the taste for Continental customs and manners became the order of the day. The young Duke of Devonshire, as the Magnus Apollo of the drawing-rooms...school, and the mornings which had been dedicated to loungiug in the Park were now absorbed at home in practising th« figure of the French quadrille, and... | |
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