He buys his frills and fopperies for Arcadia from Turkey and Eastern Europe.
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George Osborne lying yonder, all his fopperies ended, with a bullet through his heart?
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Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.
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With your guitar under the windows, of moonlight nights! your Spanish fopperies and trickeries! your French phrases and toeings!
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He plays the game with the gloves off, he strips bare all the fopperies and artificialities of the world.
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To him I am only 'the old man' who refused to 'put up' longer for his fopperies and extravagances!
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I will come to thee, but Frank, I will not stay to hear your fopperies, dispatch those e're I come.
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I visited all the famous ones, and it would fill a volume to tell you the fopperies that's said of them.
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The unities of time and place have always appeared to me fopperies, as far as they require close observance of the French rules.
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They re-unite at Cambridge, during a tea-party arranged by Bunny Cuspard (see below); he tells Joan that he admires cubism. He prides in taking Joan out to clubs; when he is in the army, he also wears fopperies but, in his "heroic" letters to Joan, he admits that he does not want to go any further to "the Contago peerage". He dies mysteriously in the Battle of Loos, and is the first of their circle of acquaintance to be killed during the Great War. Wilmington was a friend of the two protagonists, particularly of Joan.
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Moreton believes that the rising criminality in the streets of London is a result of a late radical change in the English society, which seems to be pervaded by greed and hunger for power at all levels. The love for luxury and a public short-sightedness have shaped a new reality based on avarice and on criminal behaviour, as a consequence of "our effeminacy, our toupee wigs, and powdered pates, our tea, and other scandalous fopperies". This shift towards greed and social ambition was not prerogative of the middle and upper classes but it could be retrieved even in the lower classes, eager to climb the social ladder. These criticisms are expressively restated in Defoe's Applebee articles: > What can be said in Favour of that Luxury, which is not content with the > Equipage of a Lord; a Coach and Six, a Revenue, with Servants and > Establishments in proportion; but that, to have two Coaches and Six, and two > Sets of Servants, and two Revenues, &c.
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He dreamed of a conversation with Ahimon, one of four sojourners from Jerusalem, about the futility of masonic histories, after which an ancient in a shining breastplate perused his first volume and pronounced, "Thou hast div'd deep into the water, and hast brought up a potsherd". He was woken by his neighbour's puppy eating his manuscript. Dermott then proceeded to a reasoned explanation of why a new Mason should not join a "Moderns" lodge, since their amended passwords would not be recognised by any of the other Grand Lodges which at that time existed. There follows a humorous account of their "unconstitutional fopperies", including Dermott's belief that their greatest masonic symbols were the knife and fork.Google books Ahiman Rezon (pdf) retrieved 30 June 2012 Under Dermott's influence, penmanship, and oratory, the new Grand Lodge grew to be a serious challenge to the original. The Antient's lodges were warranted from 1752, a practice not taken up by the Moderns for another two decades.
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