 The surliness of Moliere's hero is copied and caricatured. But the most nauseous libertinism and the most dastardly fraud are substituted for the purity and integrity of the original. And, to make the whole complete, Wycherley does not seem to have been...  A Complete Manual of English Literature - Page 235by Thomas Budd Shaw - 1871 - 540 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1841 - 602 pages
...moral taste, that, while he firmly believed he was producing a picture of virtue too exalted foithe commerce of this world, he was really delineating...rascal that is to be found, even in his own writings. We pass a very severe censure on Wycherley, when we say that it is a relief to turn from him to Congreve.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...substituted for the purity and integrity of the original. And, to make the whole complete, Wycherley does not seem to have been aware that he was not drawing...was his moral taste, that, while he firmly believed he was producing a picture of virtue too exalted for the commerce of this world, he was really delineating... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 128 pages
...substituted for the purity and integrity of the original. And to make the whole complete, Wycherley does not seem to have been aware that he was not drawing...rascal that is to be found, even in his own writings. We pass a very severe censure on Wycherley, when we say that it is a relief to turn from him to Congreve.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1008 pages
...substituted for the purity and integrity of the original. And, to make the whole complete, Wycherley does not seem to have been aware that he was not drawing...rascal that is to be found, even in his own writings. We pass a very severe censure on Wycherley, when we say that it is a relief to turn from him to Congreve.... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...substituted for the purity and integrity of the original. And, to make the whole complete, Wycherley does not seem to have been aware that he was not drawing...rascal that is to be found, even in his own writings. We pass a very severe censure on Wycherley, when we say that it is a relief to turn from him to Congreve.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...substituted for the purity and integrity of the original. And, to make the whole complete, Wycherlej does not seem to have been aware that he was not drawing...producing a picture of virtue too exalted for the comLL 2 merce of this world, he was really delineating the greatest rascal that is to be found, even... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1867 - 542 pages
...everybody else." " And to make the whole complete," proceeds our admirable critic, " Wycherley does not seem to have been aware that he was not drawing...believed that he was producing a picture of virtue, tos exalted for the commerce of this world, he was really delineating th§ gieatest rascal that is... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1870 - 552 pages
...everybody else." " And to make the whole complete," proceeds our admirable critic, " Wycherley does not seem to have been aware that he was not drawing...too exalted for the commerce of this world, he was reall3r delineating the greatest rascal that is to be found, even in his own writings." § 4. The second... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 732 pages
...substituted for the purity and integrity of the original. And, to make the whole complete, Wycherley does not seem to have been aware that he was not drawing...rascal that is to be found, even in his own writings. We pass a very severe censure on Wycherley, when we say that it is a relief to turn from him to Congreve.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 pages
...substituted for the purity and integrity of the original. And, to make the whole complete, Wycherley does not seem to have been aware that he was not drawing...portrait of an eminently honest man. So depraved was hia moral taste that, while he firmly believed that he was producing a picture of virtue too exalted... | |
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