 What exactly this title signified I suppose no two etymologists will ever agree. But we can learn clearly enough from the fashion-plates and caricatures of the day what the Mashers were in outward semblance, from the lampoons what was their mode of life....  Punch - Page 58edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Art nouveau - 1895 - 334 pages
...But we can learn clearly enough from the fashion-plates and caricatures of the day what the Mashers were in outward semblance, from the lampoons what was their mode of life. Unlike the Dandies of the Georgian era they made no pretence to any qualities of the intellect, and,... | |
 | Cedric Ellsworth Smith - English literature - 1928 - 488 pages
...But we can learn clearly enough from the fashion-plates and caricatures of the day what the Mashers were in outward semblance, from the lampoons, what was their mode of life. Unlike the Dandies of the Georgian era they made no pretence to any qualities of the intellect, and,... | |
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