Russell appeared accordingly at Drury Lane, in September 1795, as Charles Surface in Sheridan's The School for Scandal and Fribble in David Garrick's Miss in Her Teens. The performance is unchronicled by John Genest, whose first mention of Russell is on 6 October as Humphrey Grizzle in Prince Hoare's Three and the Deuce. Though disapproving of Russell's Charles Surface, the prince commended his Fribble. Russell made a success, in May 1796, in an original part unnamed in an anonymous farce called Alive and Merry, unprinted.
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Desipite his race record he apparently appealed to breeders due to his good conformation. He stood as a stallion at Kenton in Northumberland. He sired the undefeated Snap, who later became Champion sire four times. He also sired Prince T'Quassaw, Judgement, Fribble, Swiss and Havannah.
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Samuel Johnson was not impressed with Melmoth, regarding him as no threat. As he told Hester Thrale, he had once "in some small dispute reduced him to whistle". Thomas De Quincey, who was offered a chance to view his manuscripts around 1813, opined that "Melmoth was a fribble in literature". On the other hand, William Coxe praised him as a literary guide.
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The play concerns a young woman, Miss Biddy, and her various suitors. Mary Delany saw Miss in Her Teens in 1747 and remarked of the play in correspondence that "nothing can be lower". Of Garrick's performance she remarked that "...the part he acts in himself (Mr. Fribble) he makes so ridiculous that it is very entertaining" and added that "It is said that he mimics eleven men of fashion".
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The terms of the license mandated the two New England businesses not sell it in New Jersey, leading the expanding Friendly's chain to rebrand it as a "Fribble", and later changing its formula to be more like a traditional milkshake with ice cream instead of ice milk. When Bond's went out of business in the 1970s, Newport Creamery purchased the trademark and continues to serve the original recipe.
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But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives, and holds them. It's rather like Goethe and his mother and Frau von Stein and Christiana – As soon as the young men come into contact with women, there's a split. William gives his sex to a fribble, and his mother holds his soul. But the split kills him, because he doesn't know where he is.
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Colley Cibber as Lord Foppington in John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696) A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette; denoting a cavalier attitude Fop became a pejorative term for a foolish man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are coxcomb,The Regencydandy, Lord William Pitt-Lennox, even described someone's public manner as "too coxcombical": Venetia Murray (1998) A Social History of the Regency 1788–1830. fribble, popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni was another term of the 18th century more specifically concerned with fashion.
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Adrian first achieved wide public notice in a nine-month season at the Westminster Theatre from September 1938, as Pandarus in a modern dress Troilus and Cressida and Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonnington in The Doctor's Dilemma, winning enthusiastic notices from the critics: "Mr Max Adrian triumphantly turns Pandarus into a chattering and repulsive fribble of the glossily squalid night-club type";The Observer, 25 September 1938, p. 13 "The egregious 'B.B.'... is a great piece of fun, and Mr. Max Adrian rightly draws him with all possible exuberance of line."The Times, 18 February 1939, p. 10 Adrian joined the Old Vic company in 1939, playing the Dauphin in Shaw's Saint Joan, "a beautifully malicious study in slyness, effeminacy, meanness, and a curious lost, inverted dignity."The Times, 12 October 1939, p. 6 He continued classical work with John Gielgud's company at the Haymarket Theatre (1944–45), where he appeared as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Osric in Hamlet, and Tattle in William Congreve's Love for Love.The Times, 20 January 1973, p.
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