Lectures On the English Comic Writers
Lectures On the English Comic Writers
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Wycherley, when he got hold of a good thing, or sometimes even of a bad one, was determined to make the most of it ; and might have said with Dogberry, truly enough, " Had 1 the tediousness of a king, I could find in my heart to bestow it all upon your worships. " In reading this author's best works, those which one reads most frequently over, and knows almost by heart, one cannot help thinking of the treatment he received from Pope about his verses. It was hardly excusable in a boy of sixteen ...to an old man of seventy. Van br ugh comes next, and holds his own fully with the best. He is no writer at all, as to mere author- ship ; but he makes up for it by a prodigious fund of comic invention and ludicrous description, bordering somewhat on caricature. Tliough he did not borrow from him, he was much more like Moliere in genius than Wycherley was, who professedly imitated him. He has none of Goaigreve's graceful refinement, and as little of Wycherley's serious manner and studied insight into the springs of character ; but his exhi- bition of it in dramatic contrast and unlooked-for situations, where the different parties play upon one another's failings, and into one another s hands, keep ing up the jest like a game at battledore and shuttle- cock, and urging it to the utmost verge of breathless extravagance, in the mere eagerness of the fray, is beyond that of any other of our writers.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Wycherley, when he got hold of a good thing, or sometimes even of a bad one, was determined to make the most of it ; and might have said with Dogberry, truly enough, " Had 1 the tediousness of a king, I could find in my heart to bestow it all upon your worships. " In reading this author's best works, those which one reads most frequently over, and knows almost by heart, one cannot help thinking of the treatment he received from Pope about his verses. It was hardly excusable in a boy of sixteen ...to an old man of seventy. Van br ugh comes next, and holds his own fully with the best. He is no writer at all, as to mere author- ship ; but he makes up for it by a prodigious fund of comic invention and ludicrous description, bordering somewhat on caricature. Tliough he did not borrow from him, he was much more like Moliere in genius than Wycherley was, who professedly imitated him. He has none of Goaigreve's graceful refinement, and as little of Wycherley's serious manner and studied insight into the springs of character ; but his exhi- bition of it in dramatic contrast and unlooked-for situations, where the different parties play upon one another's failings, and into one another s hands, keep ing up the jest like a game at battledore and shuttle- cock, and urging it to the utmost verge of breathless extravagance, in the mere eagerness of the fray, is beyond that of any other of our writers.
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