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This we can easily believe , but now for a courteous slash at the awkward energy of tiewly admitted members . Desperate rush a band of raw recruits With ardent minds and no regard to time—I beg their pardon , but they are such brutes , They must excuse my writing such a line !
Hark a sound as if from a percussion ! ! 1 Follow ed by piercing shrieks , arouse our frars ; Chaperons rise alarm'd , and drtad concussion—A prostrate beauty is dissolv e d in tear 3 !
Think not the prospects of the night are turn'd , For a bright vision glances in the rin ^ ; No sooner is he seen , than all are spurn d , They seem his subjects—he appears their king ! After alluding to a dancing beau , ' in whom the gift of dancing lies / it is
said—See him , like the jorlcd lightning flashing / The pride of Almack's—darling of a ball ! All things at length must cease , and so must this , I'll end fvliat bumpkins call ihe gullopude ; Sweet uniiieairt speeches pass from Miss to Miss , All « : o to flirt , drink tea , and lemonade .
The galoppes ended , so my lay must stop ; Ah a tinule I propose to sing ' , { Wkile love sick beaux to belles the question pop , * ) With loyal heart and voice—Long live the King \ p . 75 .
' The King / poor man ! It is not easily to be conjectured how the vulgarity of any class , having the least pretensions to education or good behaviour , could exceed this wild romping without forfeiting all claims to decency . As it is , notning worse can be said of it , except that it is a highly vulgar and absurd scene . After bestowing the epithet of bumpkin *—the greatest term of reproach in 'fashionable life , —on those unfortunate individutds who chance to say ' gallopade' instead of * galoppe '—to talk of . * popping the question * shows 1 m > w very refined the fashionably-shocked personage must be in herself . And a propos of the fc Older ; ' let us select some specimens of received elegancies .
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Tale * of Fashion and Reality . 406
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/13/
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