Critical Historical And Miscellaneous Essays And Poems volume 2
Critical Historical And Miscellaneous Essays And Poems volume 2
Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
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His chief merit, like Congreve's, lies in the style of his dia- logue. But the wit which lights up the Plain Dealer and the Country Wife is i»ale and flickering, Avhen compared with the gorgeous blaze which dazzles us almost to blind- ness in Love for Love and the Way of the World. Like Congreve, and, indeed, even more than Congreve, Wychcr- ley is ready to sacrifice dramatic propriety to the liveliness LEIGH HUNT. 525 of his dialogue. The poet speaks out of the mouths of all his dunces and cox...combs, and makes them describe them- selves with a good sense and acuteness which puts them on a level with the wits and heroes. "We will give two in- stances, the first which occur to us, from the Country Wife, riicre are in the world fools who find the society of old friends insijjid, and who are always running after new com- panions. Such a character is a fair subject for comedy. But nothing can be more absurd than to introduce a man of this sort saying to his comrade, " I can deny you nothing: for though!
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