Young fops are in evidence, not to play, but to ogle the raft of glorious girls always to be found in propinquity to tables of chance.
But now our nobles too are fops and vain, Neglect the sense, but love the painted scene.
We have consorted with the gayfops of the eighteenth century in their club and coffee house life, and we have seen the haunts of men whose names are household words wherever the English tongue is spoken.
Its proximity to the Court attracted all the fops and beaux, and it was the resort of fashionable and gay young idlers.
Canons were the immense and exaggerated breeches, adorned with ribbons and richest lace, which were worn by the fopsof the court of Louis XIV.
Tis he reforms the Sot from Drink, And teaches airy Fops to think.
Vain amorous Coxcombs every where are found, Fops for all uses, but the Stage abound.
The watches were often of immense size, and hung in a rich case from the neck, and byfops wound up with great gravity and ceremony in Paul's or at the ordinary dinner.
There must be no shilly-shally, and above all no one must think us anything but eccentrick men of fashion, itinerant beaux, fops on pilgrimage, wandering wits.
I think so: to be sure, a few of our more conservative fops hold that green should never appear before the Queen's birthday.
However, is innocent, and unsuspectedly virtuous hitherto; but makes herself cheap and accessible to fops and rakes, and has not the worse opinion of a man for being such.
Not," replied she, "to invite such fopsas you to my shop.
Dismiss the train offops and fools, And learn to live by wisdom's rules.
I shall have the rarest of my shells set off with gold hinges, to make presents to all the fops about town.
Poets make characters as salesmen cloaths, We take no measure of your fops and beaus.
This work describes the fops and men of fashion of its time, and shows how popular the custom of tobacco taking had become.
At first the use of tobacco was confined to fops and the hangers on at ale houses and taverns but afterwards by the "chief men of the realm.
True fops help nature's work, and go to school To file and finish God Almighty's fool.
Mark, when they play, how our fine fops advance The mighty merits of their men of France, Keep time, cry Bon, and humour the cadence.
Sign but his peace, he vows he'll ne'er again The sacred names of fops and beaux profane.
Most coxcombs are not of the laughing kind; More goes to make a fop, than fops can find.
Now I will have the Act my own, to let the idle Fops see how much I prefer a Man loaded with Years and Wisdom.
And advise his Impertinence to trouble me no more, for I prefer Sir Francis for a Husband before all the Fops in the Universe.
Fops and hunting-men laid wagers as to whether her ladyship would kill the horse or be killed by him, and followed her training of the creature with an excitement and delight quite wild.
Sir Jeoffry, who had watched her as she queened it amongst rakes and fops and honest country squires and knights, had marked the vigour with which they plied her with an emotion which was a new sensation to his drink- bemuddled brain.
The officer was now more than ever strongly marked in him, and he tried to emulate the effeminate charms of the fops in the Guards.
There were young fops in swallow-tails and white brocaded silk waistcoats, who paid her wild attention, and asked incidentally though with patent eagerness which day in the week was her "jour" for receiving.
After all, these young Fops are not wicked; they are only mischievous, as Children or young Puppies are wont to be, ready to snarl at one another, to yap and to tear to pieces anything that happens to come in their way.
Some older Gentlemen there were, such as the Lord Chancellor himself, who were worthy of Everybody's regard; but I must confess that the Behaviour of the younger Fops was oft blameworthy.
Tis there that arrant fops display Their insolence and waistcoats white And glasses unemployed all night; Thither hussars on leave will stray To clank the spur, delight the fair-- And vanish like a bird in air.
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