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" Good-night to the Season! the dances, The fillings of hot little rooms, The glancings of rapturous glances, The fancyings of fancy costumes; The pleasures which fashion makes duties, The praisings of fiddles and flutes, The luxury of looking at beauties,... "
Evenings Abroad. By the author of “Sketches of Corfu” [i.e. Mrs. Maclellan]. - Page xii
by Frances Maclellan - 1836 - 332 pages
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Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Volume 5

1888 - 344 pages
...at putty and stones, And scrambles from story to story, To rattle at midnight his bones. Good-night to the Season !— the dances, The fillings of hot...Ladyship's manners, The ice of his Lordship's champagne. Good-night to the Season !— the rages Led off by the chiefs of the throng. The Lady Matilda's new...
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London of To-day: An Illustrated Handbook

1774 - 584 pages
...many other places in the environs of London. FAREWELL TO THE SEASON. Praed sings : — " Good-night to the Season ! — the dances, The fillings of hot...Ladyship's manners, The ice of his Lordship's champagne." The races at Goodwood mark the end of the Season. Thither go the " Quality " whose residence for a...
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London of To-day: An Illustrated Handbook for the Season 1892

Charles Eyre Pascoe - 1892 - 702 pages
...many other places in the environs of London. FAREWELL TO THE SEASON. Praed sings : — " Good-night to the Season ! — the dances, The fillings of hot...Ladyship's manners, , The ice of his Lordship's champagne." The races at Goodwood mark the end of the Season. Thither go the " Quality " whose residence for a...
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A Little Book of Light Verse

1902 - 270 pages
...at putty and stones, And scrambles from story to story, To rattle at midnight his bones. Good-night to the Season ! — the dances, The fillings of hot...Ladyship's manners, The ice of his Lordship's champagne. Good-night to the Season! — the rages Led off by the chiefs of the throng, The Lady Matilda's new...
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Poems

Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1909 - 284 pages
...Sits staring at putty and stones, And scrambles from story to story, To rattle at midnight his bones. Good night to the Season! — the dances, The fillings...Ladyship's manners, The ice of his Lordship's champagne. Good night to the Season! — the rages Led off by the chiefs of the throng, The Lady Matilda's new...
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The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1909 - 284 pages
...midnight his bones. Good night to the Season! — the dances, The fillings of hot little rooms, 98 The glancings of rapturous glances, The fancyings...Ladyship's manners, The ice of his Lordship's champagne. Good night to the Season! — the rages Led off by the chiefs of the throng, The Lady Matilda's new...
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London

Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1910 - 454 pages
...Hanover Square, or other temples of fashion, before the West-end has earned its holiday. Good-night to the Season — the dances, The fillings of hot...Ladyship's manners, The ice of his Lordship's champagne. Not every rhymer, like Praed, is able to take an inner view of this circle, on which so many authors,...
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English Lyrical Poetry from Its Origins to the Present Time

Edward Bliss Reed - 1912 - 638 pages
...he foretells London Lyrics and the modern school of society verse in his Good-Night to the Season: " Good night to the Season ! — the dances, The fillings...her Ladyship's manners, The ice of his Lordship's champagne."1 Praed has one or two tricks he repeats too often; his use of zeugma : " He cleared the...
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The Little Book of Society Verse

1922 - 392 pages
...midnight his bones. Good-night to the Season ! — the dances, The fillings of hot little rooms, 42 The glancings of rapturous glances, The fancyings...Ladyship's manners, The ice of his Lordship's champagne. Good-night to the Season! — the rages Led off by the chiefs of the throng, The Lady Matilda's new...
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W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse

W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 pages
...glancings of rapturous glances, The fancyings of fancy costumes; The pleasures which fashion makes dudes, The praisings of fiddles and flutes, The luxury of...Ladyship's manners, The ice of his Lordship's champagne. Good-night to the Season ! — the rages Led off by the chiefs of the throng, The Lady Matilda's new...
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