英语词汇beau nash的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Beau Nash. Beau Nash is the only “beautiful person” compa- rable to beau brummell. Master of Ceremonies at Bath, then England’s most fashionable gambling and cultural center, Nash spent much of his long life preening and strutting, riding in a chariot drawn by six gray stallions and attended by laced lackeys. The “King of Bath” died in 1761, aged 87, and the town ordered a full-size statue of him erected in the Pump Room between the smaller busts of Newton and Pope. That Beau Nash, like Brummel, was remembered for his excesses and not his many good works can be seen in Lord Chesterfield’s epigram con- cerning this statue:

词汇	beau nash
词源	Beau Nash. Beau Nash is the only “beautiful person” compa- rable to beau brummell. Master of Ceremonies at Bath, then England’s most fashionable gambling and cultural center, Nash spent much of his long life preening and strutting, riding in a chariot drawn by six gray stallions and attended by laced lackeys. The “King of Bath” died in 1761, aged 87, and the town ordered a full-size statue of him erected in the Pump Room between the smaller busts of Newton and Pope. That Beau Nash, like Brummel, was remembered for his excesses and not his many good works can be seen in Lord Chesterfield’s epigram con- cerning this statue: The statue placed these busts between Gives satire all its strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length.
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