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Fairbeard, uncovering, "since you are for the 'Plain Dealer, there he is for you;" whereon he led Wycherley towards her. "This lady," says that gentleman, making her a profound bow, "can bear plain speaking; for she appears to be so accomplished, that what would be compliment said to others, spoken to her would be plain dealing."
The policemen helped me lift Captain Dodd off the grass, sir; Julia met us chose by, and we four carried Dr. Wycherhey's phantom home together to Albion Villa." Mr. Abbott noted down all the names, and then turned to Dr. Wycherley. "What do you say to that?"
Charles Lamb calls the conventional world of Wycherley and Congreve. Here the garb, the manners, the topics of conversation, are those of the real town and of the passing day. The hero is in all superficial accomplishments exactly the fine gentleman whom every youth in the pit would gladly resemble. The heroine is the fine lady whom every youth in the pit would gladly marry.
It is curious to trace the history of the intercourse which took place between Wycherley and Pope, between the representative of the age that was going out and the representative of the age that was coming in, between the friend of Rochester and Buckingham and the friend of Lyttelton and Mansfield.
They entered in, and dwelt together: and the second possession was worse than the first. We will now, as far as our limits will permit, pass in review the writers to whom Mr. Leigh Hunt has introduced us. Of the four, Wycherley stands, we think, last in literary merit, but first in order of time, and first, beyond all doubt, in immorality. WILLIAM WYCHERLEY was born in 1640.
At first this piece pleased the people less than the critics; but after a time its unquestionable merits and the zealous support of Lord Dorset, whose influence in literary and fashionable society was unbounded, established it in the public favor. The fortune of Wycherley was now in the zenith, and began to decline. A long life was still before him.
First, it is not very likely that a young Templar, quite unknown in the world, and Wycherley was such in 1665, should have quitted his chambers to go to sea. On the other hand, it would be in the regular course of things, that, when a courtier and an equerry, he should offer his services.
I remember minutely how he delivered each in succession, and cannot by any effort imagine how any of them could be altered for the better. No man could deliver brilliant dialogue the dialogue of Congreve or of Wycherley because none understood it half so well as John Kemble. His Valentine, in Love for Love, was, to my recollection, faultless.
The prudent youth had lent the money on high interest and on landed security; and this-judicious investment was the beginning of the most splendid private fortune in Europe. Wycherley was not so lucky.
"And so I have," rejoined Frank. "Whom, then? eh! Do tell me!" demanded Vernon, eagerly. "Timothy," replied Frank. "Timothy!" reiterated the poet. "Ay, Timothy, to be sure; what d'ye think of that, Mr Vernon Wycherley?" "Why, it leads me to hope," replied that gentleman, "that we may meet the ladies themselves ere long, or"
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