 Almack's, the seventh heaven of the fashionable world. Of the three hundred officers of the Foot Guards, not more than halfa-dozen were honoured with vouchers of admission to this exclusive temple of the beau monde ; the gates of which were guarded by...  All the Year Round - Seite 175herausgegeben von - 1881Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Rees Howell Gronow - 1862 - 302 Seiten
...the fashionable world. Of the three hundred officers of the Foot Guards, not more than half a dozen were honoured with vouchers of admission to this exclusive...the beau monde; the gates of which were guarded by lady patronesses, whose smiles or frowns consigned men and women to happiness or despair. These lady... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1863 - 432 Seiten
...can hardly conceive at the present time the importance which was attached to getting admission to it. Of the three hundred officers of the Foot Guards, not more than half a dozen were honoured with vouchers of admission to this temple, the gates of which were guarded... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 Seiten
...APPENDIX. Almack's. (Page 71.) Captain Gronow, writing in 1814, says : "At the present time, one can hardly conceive the importance which was attached to getting...exclusive temple of the beau monde; the gates of which are guarded by lady patronesses, whose smiles or frowns consigned men and women to happiness or despair.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 Seiten
...APPENDIX. Almack's. (Page 71.) Captain Gronow, writing in 1814, says : "At the present time, one can hardly conceive the importance which was attached to getting...exclusive temple of the beau monde; the gates of which are guarded by lady patronesses, whose smiles or frowns consigned men and women to happiness or despair.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1876 - 636 Seiten
...He had many comrades in misfortune. The late Captain Gronow relates in a certain tone of awe, that " of the three hundred officers of the Foot Guards not...admission to this exclusive temple of the beau monde." And he enumerates the lady patronesses at this time : the Ladies Castlereagh, Jersey, Cowper, and Sefton,... | |
 | John Ashton - 1890 - 414 Seiten
...Paradise, and could not. Capt. Gronow, writing of 1814, says : " At the present time one can hardly conceive the importance which was attached to getting...hundred officers of the Foot Guards, not more than half a dozen were honoured with vouchers of admission to this exclusive temple of the beau monde ;... | |
 | John Ashton - 1890 - 404 Seiten
...Paradise, and could not. Capt. Gronow, writing of 1814, says : " At the present time one can hardly conceive the importance which was attached to getting...hundred officers of the Foot Guards, not more than half a dozen were honoured with vouchers of admission to this exclusive temple of the beau monde ;... | |
 | John Ashton - 1890 - 420 Seiten
...the fashionable world. Of the three hundred officers of the Foot Guards, not more than half a dozen were honoured with vouchers of admission to this exclusive...the beau monde ; the gates of which were guarded by lady patronesses, whose smiles or frowns consigned men and women to happiness or despair. These lady... | |
 | Rees Howell Gronow - 1892 - 464 Seiten
...refer was, to use a familiar expression, wonderfully " select." At the present time one can hardly conceive the importance which was attached to getting...hundred officers of the Foot Guards, not more than half a dozen were honoured with vouchers of admission to this exclusive temple of the beau monde ;... | |
 | Walter Besant, Geraldine Edith Mitton - 1902 - 156 Seiten
...steadily maintained its popularity. Captain Gronow in 1814 says: "At the present time one can hardly conceive the importance which was attached to getting...Almack's, the seventh heaven of the fashionable world." The large ballroom was about 100 feet in length by 40 in width, and the largest number of persons present... | |
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