 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...Maccaroni is not in Johnson's Dictionary. Horace Walpole {Letters, \\. 178) on Feb. 6, 1 764, 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
...party. The Duc 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 Club l (which is composed of all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses,) they played... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...party. The Duc 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...curls and spying-glasses,) they played again: the Duc lost, but not much. In the passage at the Opera, the Duc saw Mr. Stuart talking to Virette, and... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 574 pages
...party. The Due 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...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,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 440 pages
...Club was the " Crockford's " of the last century. Walpole speaks of it, in one of his letters, as " composed of all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses." It comprised, however, the men of rank and pleasure of the day, and, were the term " dandy " not obsolete,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...joucz plus avec lui, si vous n'etcs pas de moitieV' So far was very well. On Saturday, at the Haccaroni Club' (which is composed of all the travelled young...passage at the Opera, the Due saw Mr. Stuart talking to Virctte, and told the former that Yirette was a coquin, a fiipon, &c. &c. Virctte retired, saying only,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 348 pages
...party. The Due 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,...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 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 320 pages
...sought to introduce elegances of dress and bearing from the continent. On Saturday, at the Uaccaroni Club (which is composed of all the travelled young...long curls and spying-glasses) they played again. Waipote, To Hertford, Feb. 6, 1764. 2. Of or pertaining to macaronis or fops; exquisite. Ye travell'd... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 120 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... | |
| |
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. 
