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Updated: June 28, 2025
Rather rat the Play which has no Interest. Interest sways as much in the Theatre as at Court. And you know it is not always the Companion of Merit in either." The handsome student from Leyden the potential Congreve who wrote Love in Several Masques, and had Lady Mary Wortley Montagu for patroness, might fairly be supposed to have expectations which warranted the civilities of Messrs.
My diary of July 10 states: "Working party in the evening with Sergeant Clews carrying ammunition from a dump near White Château to a Brigade dump further on to the left, behind Congreve Walk. A very quiet night." On July 11 I wrote home as follows: "We had Major Brighten and Captain Blamey in for dinner yesterday evening.
Charles Congreve, a clergyman, which he thus described: 'He obtained, I believe, considerable preferment in Ireland, but now lives in London, quite as a valetudinarian, afraid to go into any house but his own. He takes a short airing in his post-chaise every day.
"I do believe," said Nigel in some surprise, "that they are lighting up the place with petroleum lamps!" "Ay, and you will observe that they are lighting the lamps with Congreve matches at least with matches of the same sort, supplied by the Dutch and Chinese. "No doubt steam is zee cause of zee change," remarked the professor.
From each sign, from each printed word, go pen lines, which radiate and meander like a Congreve rocket, and spread themselves out at the margin in a luminous rain of phrases, epithets, and substantives, underlined, crossed, mixed, erased, superposed: the effect is dazzling.
The great art of Congreve is especially shown in this, that he has entirely excluded from his scenes, some little generosities in the part of Angelica perhaps excepted, not only any thing like a faultless character, but any pretensions to goodness or good feelings whatsoever.
Now, on a bed, that could be lifted from the carriage, by two careful servants, and slowly taken in at the great entrance, wan, wasted, and helpless, Ernestine was going into Congreve Hall at last. "We haven't had a letter from Olive this week," said Bea, breaking a silence that had fallen upon them, as they sat sewing in the cheerful sitting-room. "How long she has been gone!
Likewise Letters, and Essays, on several Subjects, philosophical, historical, critical, amorous, &c. in Prose and Verse, to John Dryden, Esq; George Granville, Esq; Walter Moyle, Esq; Mr. Congreve, Mr. Dennis, and other ingenious gentlemen of the age.
So without going on a pilgrimage to the Kilkenny College, at which Swift, Congreve, and Farquhar, an odd concatenation of celebrities were more or less educated, we made our way to the Imperial Hotel for luncheon. The waiter was a delightful Celt.
Besides this help, which was not inconsiderable, Mr. Congreve has done me the favour to review the "AEneis," and compare my version with the original. I shall never be ashamed to own that this excellent young man has shown me many faults, which I have endeavoured to correct. It is true he might have easily found more, and then my translation had been more perfect.
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