 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 782 oldal
...pointed terms. Every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams in prose, * > new triumph of wit, a new conquest over dulness. The fire of artful raillery is nowhere else « *ell kept up. This style, which he was almost the first to introduce, and which he carried to the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1852 - 498 oldal
...replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms. Every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams in prose, is a now triumph of wit, a new conquest over dulness. The fire of artful raillery is nowhere else so well... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1856 - 494 oldal
...replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms. Every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams in prose, is a new triumph of wit, a aew conquest over dulness. The fire of artful raillery is nowhere else so well kept up. This style,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 488 oldal
...replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms. Every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams...nowhere else so well kept up. This style, which he was almost'the first to introduce, and which he carried to the utmost pitch of classical refinement, reminds... | |
 | William Wycherley - 1875 - 770 oldal
...replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most ]>olÍKÍied and pointed terms. Every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams...prose, is a new triumph of wit, a new conquest over il til ness. The fire of artful raillery is nowhere else so well kept up. This style, which ho was... | |
 | William Wycherley - 1875 - 770 oldal
...replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms. Every page presents a KZ <4 f ES , J 2 b.4 53^ \ (S l ن... " ~0؞ @ aS V .Qi^ , r 0 e O\r⋃ ilulness. The fire of artful raillery is nowhere else so well kept up. This style, which ho was almost... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 oldal
...replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms ; every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams in prose, is a new example of wit, a new conquest over dulness." Sir John Vanbrugh (1666-1726), who wrote "The Relapse"... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 oldal
...replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms. Every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams...of artful raillery is nowhere else so well kept up. ... It bears every mark of being what he himself in the dedication to one of his plays tells us that... | |
 | WILLIAM CONGREVE - 1887 - 556 oldal
...replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms. Every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams...kept up. This style, which he was almost the first to ~had not, in a large measure, the poetical faculty; but compared with Wycherley he might be called... | |
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His style is inimitable, nay perfect. It is the highest model of comic dialogue. Every sentence is replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms. Every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams... 
