Stevenson's various occasional sallies in verse and prose - his Fables for Grown Gentlemen (1761-1770), his Crazy Tales (1762), and his numerous skits at the political opponents of Wilkes, among whose "macaronies" he numbered himself - were collected after his death, and it is impossible to read them without being struck with their close family resemblance in spirit and turn of thought to Sterne's work, inferior as they are in literary genius. [Please select]
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Were he, to choose, a wench out of the King's passengers I'd warrant our macaronies to compose odes to her eyebrows. [Please select]
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And we, too, had our "Fops' Alley," where our macaronies ogled the fair and passed from box to box. [Please select]
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You might then talk, forsooth, to the macaronies of Maryland, of your daughter the Duchess. [Please select]
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And this was how I was treated by those heathen and cynical macaronies, Mr. [Please select]
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You have proved yourself a man, Richard, and there are very few macaronies would have done as you did. [Please select]
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I wandered out of the assembly-room and through the silent corridors of the Stadt House, turning over and over again what I had heard, and picturing Dorothy reigning over the macaronies of St. [Please select]
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