So far was very well. On Saturday, at the Maccaroni Club ' (which is composed of all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses), they played again : the Due lost, but not much. In the passage at the Opera, the Due saw Mr. Stuart talking... The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford - Page 174by Horace Walpole - 1857Full view - About this book
| James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...Maccaroni is not in Johnson's Dictionary. Horace Walpole {Letters,™. 178) on Feb. 6, 1764, mentions 'the Maccaroni Club, which is composed of all the...young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses.' On the following Dec. 16 he says:—'The Maccaroni Club has quite absorbed Arthur's ; for, you know,... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...avec lui, si vous n'etes pas de moitie." So far was very well. On Saturday, at the Maccaroni Club l (which is composed of all the travelled young men...Stuart talking to Virette, and told the former that Virette was a coquin, a fripon, &c. &c. Virette retired, say1 The " maccaroni" of 1764 was nearly synonymous... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...de Pecquigny said to the latter, " Monsieur, ne jouez plus avec lui, si vous n'etes pas de moitie." So far was very well. On Saturday at the Maccaroni...Stuart talking to Virette, and told the former that Virette was a coquin, a fripon, &c. &c. Virette retired, saying only, " Voila un fou." The Due then... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 574 pages
...de Pecquigny said to the latter, " Monsieur, ne joucz plus avec lui, si vous n'etes pas de moitie." So far was very well. On Saturday at the Maccaroni...composed of all the travelled young men who wear long cm Is and spying-glasses,) they played again: the Due lost, but not much. In the passage at the Opera,... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1861 - 554 pages
...de Pecquigny said to the latter, " Monsieur, ne jouez plus avec lui, si vous n'etes pas de moitieV' So far was very well. On Saturday, at the Maccaroni...Stuart talking to Virette, and told the former that Virette was a coquin, a fripon, &c. &c. Virette retired, saying only, "Voila un fou." The Due then... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 492 pages
...Maccaroni is not in Johnson's Dictionary. Horace\Va.\pole(Lct/ers, iv. 178) on Feb. 6, 1764, mentions 'the Maccaroni Club, which is composed of all the...young men who wear long curls and spyingglasses.' On the following Dec. 16 he says :—' The Maccaroni Club has quite absorbed Arthur's; for, you know,... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1890 - 348 pages
...de Pecquigny said to the latter, " Monsieur, ne jouez plus avec lui, si vous n'etes pas de moitie." So far was very well. On Saturday, at the Maccaroni...all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying glasses), they played again : the Due lost, but not much. In the passage at the Opera, the Due... | |
| William Dwight Whitney - 1890 - 320 pages
...under Eudypten. WalpoU, To Hertford, Feb. 6, 1784. 2. Of or pertaining to macaronis or fops; exquisite. On Saturday, at the Maccaroni Club (which is composed...all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spylng-glasses) they played again. Ye travell'd tribe, ye macarotu train, of French friseurs and nosegays... | |
| William Dwight Whitney - 1890 - 324 pages
...continent. 4. A crested penguin or rock-hopper : a sailors' name. See penguin, and cut under Eudyptes. On Saturday, at the Maccaroni Club (which Is composed...all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasacs) they played again. Walpote, To Hertford, Feb. 6,1764. 2. Of or pertaining to macaronis... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 432 pages
...Francis Dashwood, who were seldom sober the whole time they were in Italy." The Maccaroni, he said, was " composed of all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying glasses." P. 232. Mackenzie's Margery Mushroom. In a serial, called The Lounger, published at... | |
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