There are not infrequent scenes of Dryden, of Wycherley, of Vanbrugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Memoir of Mrs. Behn] Reference

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

But these biases aren't anything that hasn't been faced already by Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Congreve, Wycherley, and Moliere.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Rally To Restore Sanity' Critics Unite To Offer America Pretentious Whining] 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

Take Wycherley; and compare Horner with Pinchwife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Wycherley did not choose to be out of the fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

But the fondness of Wycherley was too violent to last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference

The grossness of his comedies rivalled that of Wycherley himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683] Reference

Wycherley left Oxford without taking a degree, and entered at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

But in every point Congreve maintained his superiority to Wycherley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Wycherley, not with that rare and faint embryo of the later Congreve.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]] Reference

For both Wycherley and Vanbrugh are playwrights, and Congreve is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation] Reference

It is not strange that she should have regarded Wycherley with favor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

The fortune of Wycherley was now in the zenith, and began to decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Wycherley, the dramatist; Grinling Gibbons, died 1721, sculptor in wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strand District The Fascination of London] Reference

Charles thought the conduct of Wycherley both disrespectful and disingenuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Wycherley had some knowledge of books; but Congreve was a man of real learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Wycherley borrows Viola; and Viola forthwith becomes a pandar of the basest sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Of the moral character of Wycherley it can hardly be necessary for us to say more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Congreve died in the enjoyment of high consideration; Wycherley forgotten or despised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Wycherley nor Vanbrugh has any strain of the admirable intellectual quality of Congreve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation] Reference

The common feeling of all men, even the men meant to be best, in the plays of Wycherley and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)] Reference

Nothing that we know of Wycherley leads us to think him incapable of sacrificing truth to vanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

The whole air and spirit of the piece belong to a period subsequent to that mentioned by Wycherley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Wycherley lived some years after the termination of the strange friendship which we have described.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

The hideous indecency of Dryden, of Wycherley, and of Vanbrugh had brought about a certain reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)] Reference

Congreve is only an artist in style writing for himself and half a dozen in the pit, while Wycherley and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation] Reference

For, in the prologue to the Country Wife, Wycherley described himself as "the late so baffled scribbler.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

The case is widely different with what Mr. Charles Lamb calls the conventional world of Wycherley and Congreve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Horner of Wycherley and the Careless of Congreve is as absurd as it would be to arraign a sleeper for his dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Wycherley addressed his ironical dedication of "The Plain Dealer," which is considered as a masterpiece of raillery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

Of the four, Wycherley stands, we think, last in literary merit, but first in order of time, and first, beyond all doubt, in immorality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

In fact, the school of Bolingbroke and Swift, to say nothing of Wycherley, was hardly calculated to generate a chivalrous tone of feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference