 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 returned to school, and the mornings which had been dedicated to lounging in the Park, were...  Personal Reminiscences - Page 285by Ellis Cornelia Knight, Thomas Raikes - 1876 - 339 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Raikes - France - 1856 - 404 pages
...mornings which had been dedicated to lounging in the Park, were now absorbed at home in practising the figures of a French quadrille, or whirling a chair...performers. What scenes have we witnessed in those days at Almacks', &c.! What fear and trembling in the debutantes at the commencement of a waltz, what giddiness... | |
 | Thomas Raikes - France - 1856 - 406 pages
...mornings which had been dedicated to lounging in the park, were now absorbed at home in practising the figures of a French quadrille, or whirling a chair...performers. What scenes have we witnessed in those days at Almacks', &c. ! What fear and trembling in the debutantes at the commencement of a waltz, what giddiness... | |
 | Thomas Raikes - France - 1856 - 470 pages
...mornings which had been dedicated to lounging in the park, were now absorbed at home in practising the figures of a French quadrille, or whirling a chair...performers. What scenes have we witnessed in those days at Almacks', &c. ! What fear and trembling in the debutantes at the commencement of a waltz, what giddiness... | |
 | England - 1878 - 822 pages
...lounging in the Park were now absorbed at home in practising the figure of the Frvnch quadrille, and whirling a chair round the room to learn the step and measure of the German waltz." Beau Brummel, of whom nothing stands the test of time — not a single saying, not a single taste or... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - England - 1881 - 946 pages
...the mornings which had been dedicated to lounging in the park were now absorbed at home in practising the figures of a French quadrille, or whirling a chair...to learn the step and measure of the German waltz. Two Dutchmen — Baron Tripp (appropriately named) and Baron Tuyll — were chief professors: the former... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - Great Britain - 1881 - 464 pages
...his countryman Gow's band from Edinburgh to the balls, which played reels and other Scotch dances. or whirling a chair round the room to learn the step and measure of the German waltz. Two Dutchmen — Baron Tripp (appropriately named) and Baron Tuyll — were chief professors : the... | |
 | Anne Mozley - 1892 - 418 pages
...lounging in the Park were now absorbed at home in practising the figure of the French quadrille, and whirling a chair round the room to learn the step and measure of the German waltz." Beau Bruno mel, of whom nothing stands the test of time — not a single saying, not a single taste... | |
 | Florence Hull Winterburn - Entertaining - 1914 - 232 pages
...and young returned to school, and the mornings were now absorbed at home in whirling a chair around the room to learn the step and measure of the German waltz. The antiwaltzing party took alarm, cried it down, mothers forbade it, and every ball-room became a... | |
 | Charles E. Pearce - Actors - 1915 - 428 pages
...THE WALTZ CRAZE 269 lounging in the Park," Raikes tells us, " 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 a German waltz. . . . What scenes have we witnessed in those days at Almack's, etc. ! What fear and... | |
 | Charles E. Pearce - 1915 - 434 pages
...been dedicated to lounging in the Park," Raikes tells us, " 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 a German waltz. . . . What scenes have we witnessed in those days at Almack's, etc. ! What fear and... | |
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