He was entirely shrouded I honestly wasn’t sure who he was at first. They drew my eye, and it took me several more moments to see the figure lying face down and spread-eagled in the center of the stage. All was still for a moment before cloaked figures toward the back of the stage carrying candles started a procession forward. This was not the direction Doran went in at all. Perdita and Florizel - Mary Robinson's affair with.I had always imagined the play opening with Henry IV, formerly Henry Bolingbroke, sitting on his throne, addressing his court.Historic places I have visited in 2014 - a quiz.Historic places I have visited in 2014 - quiz answers.Quotes from John Bee's Slang, a dictionary of the turf, the ring, the chase, the pit, of bon-ton and the varieties of life (1823).Īckermann, Rudolph and Pyne, William Henry, The Microcosm of London or London in miniature (Rudolph Ackermann 1808-1810, reprinted 1904)īee, John, Slang, a dictionary of the turf, the ring, the chase, the pit, of bon-ton and the varieties of life (1823) If you have enjoyed this blog and want to encourage me and help me to keep making my research freely available, please buy me a virtual cup of coffee by clicking the button below.ġ. Rachel lives in the beautiful Georgian seaside town of Weymouth, Dorset, on the south coast of England, with her husband, Andrew.įind out more about Rachel's books and sign up for her newsletter here. She has been sharing her research on this blog since 2011. Rachel Knowles writes clean/Christian historical romance set in the time of Jane Austen. 1Ī masquerade at the Pantheon from The Microcosm of London (1808-10) Mascul et Fem Terms which denote the ton: ‘The go, the mode, or pink of the mode bang-up, the prime of life, or all prime the thing, the dash, and a dasher quite the Varment – a four-in-hand, a whip, a very jarvy a swell, a diamond of the first water.’ None can expect to attain perfection in all these, unless he could obtain the same assistance that Faustus had, viz Leviathan and then he could not begrudge to meet the same end.

Bon ton – is included in haut-ton, and is French for that part of society who live at their ease, as to income and pursuits, whose manners are tonish, and who, like other divisions of society, employ terms of their own, which rather sparingly they engraft on the best King’s English. High life, particularly of whoredom: he who does not keep a girl, or part of one, cannot be of the Bon-ton when he ceases, let him cut. The appellation is much oftener applied than assumed. In Paris they are both called le bon genre. Persons taking up good portions of their hours in seeking pleasure, are of the Bon-ton, as stage-actors and frequenters of play-houses, visitors at watering-places, officers, &c &c. The bon-ton: Highflier Cyprians, and those who run after them from Bon – good, easy – and ton, or tone, the degree of tact and tension to be employed by modish people frequently called ‘the ton’ only. Money alone does not confer the haut-titre, nor giving a ball in a fine house nor commanding a play, nor driving four-in-hand, but these together may constitute haut-ton with very little trouble. The haut ton: The highest orders of society, who see life they are so denominated by the bon-ton and bon-genre, and are all of high breeding and large fortune.

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