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"Indeed, sir," he said, "we are apt to boast of our virgin city and its quays, a mile long as you will perceive, at which sixty sail of vessels can unload at a time; of our dry dock, lately built by our townsman Mr Congreve; of our conduits, which supply both our houses and the shipping with water; of the privileges enjoyed by our citizens; and of our militia, mustering five hundred men, and capable of giving a good account of any enemy who may dare to invade our shores.
Congreve was seen walking about in the fresh autumn sunshine, before breakfast, and the girls saw him gathering a small cluster of flowers, selecting from the dewy bunches with much care; and after a while Olive, who had slept late with fatigue, came down in her grey wrapper with its blue facings, and part of the flowers were in her wavy hair, and part at her throat, with a little knot of ribbon.
"It is inspiriting to see how gallantly the solitary outlaw advances to attack enemies formidable separately, and, it might have been thought, irresistible when combined; distributes his swashing blows right and left among Wycherley, Congreve and Vanbrugh, treads the wretched D'Urfey down in the dirt beneath his feet; and strikes with all his strength full at the towering crest of Dryden."
Now, and to some degree always, he strongly sympathised with the patriotism represented by Macaulay. I need only notice at present certain theological implications. The positivists were beginning to make themselves known, and, for various reasons, were anything but attractive to him. He denounces a manifesto from Mr. Congreve in January 1857, and again from the patriotic side. Mr.
Among other reasons for this latter difference one chiefly may be given: that in the comedies he sought to reproduce the artificial world of Congreve and Wycherley, while in the burlesques and farces he depicted the world in which he lived. The Historical Register and Eurydice Hiss'd were published together in June 1737.
In a small chest which he had not opened before he found, to his great delight, a number of books, all the plays of Shakespeare, several by Beaumont and Fletcher, others by Congreve and Marlowe, Monsieur Rollin's Ancient History, a copy of Telemachus, translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, Ovid, Horace, Virgil and other classics.
He rushed into his master's presence, and implored him not to stir, not to allow any one to give ingress to the enemies the machine might disgorge. "I have heard," said he, "how a town in Italy I think it was Bologna was once taken and given to the sword, by incautiously admitting a wooden horse full of the troops of Barbarossa and all manner of bombs and Congreve rockets."
Life in Hamburg was probably not much unlike that of Restoration London; but though Keiser may well be set beside Purcell, Hamburg had no dramatists to compare with Congreve, hardly even with Shadwell. Jeremy Collier, however, was far outdone in vituperation by the puritan clergy who, not altogether without reason, castigated the immorality of the Hamburg stage.
Yet, Heaven knows, Julia was no fool. A sharper woman at a bargain did not exist. She was always punctual. The watch on her wrist gave her twelve minutes and a half in which to reach Bruton Street. Lady Congreve expected her at five. The gilt clock at Verrey's was striking five. Florinda looked at it with a dull expression, like an animal.
Lady Mary makes the acquaintance of Edward Wortley Montagu Montagu attracted by her looks and her literary gifts Assists her in her studies Montagu a friend of the leading men of letters of the day Addison, Steele, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and others The second volume of the Tatler dedicated to him by Steele Montagu a staunch Whig His paternal interest for Lady Mary does not endure He becomes a suitor for her hand Lady Mary's devotion and respect for him Her flirtations She and Montagu correspond through the medium of his sister, Anne Lady Mary's mordant humour Her delight in retailing society scandal The death of Anne Wortley Lady Mary and Montagu henceforth communicate direct Her first letter to him.
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