"I suspect Mr. Baker, alias Congreve, has disposed of his bonds," he thought to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tin Box and What it Contained] Reference

When the modern match was first introduced as the "Congreve" the cost was 2s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

'Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Of Johnson]

Congreve told me to-day, he smoked it immediately.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal to Stella] Reference

When does Miss Congreve come up before the Magistrate?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

Who spoke and wrote in higher praise of Will Congreve than.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

Congreve died in Surrey-street, in the Strand, at his own house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829] Reference

“Albatross” glided on its bed of air like a Congreve rocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robur the Conqueror] Reference

Congreve -- Genius 15, Judgment 16, Learning 14, Versification 14.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference

Congreve, a master of sparkling wit, Sir John Vanbrugh, and George.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

Society had a dingy exterior, a death-mask of Congreve in the hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spoon] Reference

Congreve was not ashamed to vindicate the drama, licentious as it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

Congreve, and William III. needed better verses than those applauded by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

Ambrose Philips and Congreve were all enjoying amply endowed sinecures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voltaire] Reference

"I always have wanted to see Congreve Hall," said Bea, with a little sigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference

"Neither Congreve nor Farquhar wrote tragedies, sir," retorted Vane stiffly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

Time, in the words of Congreve, thou sayest, will give increase to her afflictions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Stella, and so also would have been Congreve but that he was blind and in feeble health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

Could they not all speak long pages of Congreve; had they not wept and kindled over Otway and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

Wycherley, Vanbrugh, and Congreve he esteemed more highly than most of their countrymen do now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voltaire] Reference

Congreve came to the defence of the stage, and his example was followed by his brother dramatists.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

Congreve and Farquhar show their heads once in seven years only, to be exploded and put down instantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

Congreve Hall, as soon as I had seen everything about it, and felt well enough acquainted to tell it well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference

How Darco worked, stormed, domineered in the ensuing month, nobody outside the limits of the Congreve knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Congreve, and that of Admiral Tyrrell, who was buried at sea in 1766, always attracts the notice of visitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

Congreve, but they must also read the autobiography of Colley Cibber, the actor-manager of the Theatre Royal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference

Dryden, Shadwell, Congreve, and other poets, and the music was supplied by such composers as Purcell and Blow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

The character of Aspasia in this paper has been attributed to Congreve, on the ground, apparently, that he knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference

The second lecture was upon Congreve, the most worthless, and Addison, the most amiable of the English Humorists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

Olive; she's a thorough Congreve, and I'd rather lose my best handkerchief than have anything happen to her -- I had indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference

How many times had the girls thought of Ernestine, with her beauty, her grace, and queenly little airs, as being in Congreve Hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference

The humour is genial and unforced; there is no smell of the lamp about it, no premeditated effort at dragging in jests, as in Congreve.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference

No man could deliver brilliant dialogue-the dialogue of Congreve or of Wycherley-because none understood it-half so well as John Kemble.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference