Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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Page 144
... WYCHERLEY , CONGREVE , VANBRUGH , and FARQUHAR , with Biographical and Critical Notices . By LEIGH HUNT . 8vo . London : 1840 . We We have a kindness for Mr. Leigh Hunt . We form our judgment of him , indeed , only from events of ...
... WYCHERLEY , CONGREVE , VANBRUGH , and FARQUHAR , with Biographical and Critical Notices . By LEIGH HUNT . 8vo . London : 1840 . We We have a kindness for Mr. Leigh Hunt . We form our judgment of him , indeed , only from events of ...
Page 150
... Wycherley ; and compare Horner with Pinchwife . Take Vanbrugh ; and compare Constant with Sir John Brute . Take Farquhar ; and compare Archer with Squire Sullen . Take Congreve ; and compare Bellmour with Fondle wife , Careless with Sir ...
... Wycherley ; and compare Horner with Pinchwife . Take Vanbrugh ; and compare Constant with Sir John Brute . Take Farquhar ; and compare Archer with Squire Sullen . Take Congreve ; and compare Bellmour with Fondle wife , Careless with Sir ...
Page 153
... Wycherley and Congreve . Here the garb , the manners , the topics of conversation are those of the real town and of the passing day . The hero is in all superficial accomplishments exactly the fine gentleman whom every youth in the pit ...
... Wycherley and Congreve . Here the garb , the manners , the topics of conversation are those of the real town and of the passing day . The hero is in all superficial accomplishments exactly the fine gentleman whom every youth in the pit ...
Page 161
... Wycherley stands , we think , last in literary merit , but first in order of time , and first , beyond all doubt , in immorality . WILLIAM WYCHERLEY was born in 1640. He was the son of a Shropshire gentleman of old family , and of what ...
... Wycherley stands , we think , last in literary merit , but first in order of time , and first , beyond all doubt , in immorality . WILLIAM WYCHERLEY was born in 1640. He was the son of a Shropshire gentleman of old family , and of what ...
Page 162
... Wycherley became a member of Queen's College , Oxford , and abjured the errors of the Church of Rome . The somewhat equivocal glory of turning , for a short time , a good - for - nothing Papist into a good - for - nothing Protestant is ...
... Wycherley became a member of Queen's College , Oxford , and abjured the errors of the Church of Rome . The somewhat equivocal glory of turning , for a short time , a good - for - nothing Papist into a good - for - nothing Protestant is ...
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