JB/004/070/005

Click Here To Edit

THE EXAMINER. 133
-----

of the female dancers. We do not hear of any proposal to change
the style of dancing at this theatre; therefore we must have pirouettes,
and the ladies must make some exhibition of under drapery. This is
most commonly a sort of elastic fawn-coloured pantaloons, of tolerable
substance, which at the most, gives a flying glimpse of something like
a Venus, sculptured out of the same sort of stone as Tam O'Shanter
and Souter Johnny. The only alternative is in volumes of white
muslin drawers, which set forth the shadowy semblance of something
like a Dutch farmer's wife skating to market in a high wind. On
the score of taste we prefer the Venus, not to say that the more
cumbrous drapery renders grace and good dancing impossible. As to the
influence of either costume on the morale of the spectator, it seems
to us to be absolutely nothing—unless perhaps, in the case of such
imaginations as Tiberius liked to have about him in the island of
Capreæ.

Identifier: | JB/004/070/005"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.
Date_1	1831-02-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	004	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	070	Info in main headings field
Image	005	Titles	the examiner / sunday, february 27, 1831 / no. 1204
Category	printed material	Number of Pages	8
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(130-144)
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"john fonblanques eulogium on brougham" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	1991
Box Contents