Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]
… gift of making friends. Jesse’s biography frequently references Brummell’s ‘album’, a book into which the great dandy himself entered poems written to or about him, a document of his sociable circle, with verse from a range of people, among … prince, inquired from a person standing close by: ‘Who’s your fat friend?’ (Jesse I: 274), thereby hardly endearing himself to his former protector. 2 William Hazlitt, who collected some of Brummell’s sayings, viewed them with scepticism; … George Brummell (1845) 7 and Charles Baudelaire’s vision of the aloof dandy’s ‘culte de soi-même’ 8 as well as his self-assumed, quasi-sacerdotal function in Le Peintre de la Vie moderne (1863). 6 . Thomas Henry Lister, Granby: A Novel, …
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