William Wycherley

Lee told another playwright, William Wycherley, that he ought no more to be in Bethlem for Want of Sense, than other Mad Libertines and Poets abroad, or any Sober Fools whatever.44 But in the end he felt powerless in the face of his addiction and the authorities, as expressed in his famous observation that: They said I was mad: and I said they were mad: damn them, they outvoted me!

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Lee told another playwright, William Wycherley, that he ought no more to be in Bethlem for Want of Sense, than other Mad Libertines and Poets abroad, or any Sober Fools whatever.44 But in the end he felt powerless in the face of his addiction and the authorities, as expressed in his famous observation that: They said I was mad: and I said they were mad: damn them, they outvoted me!

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Lee told another playwright, William Wycherley, that he ought no more to be in Bethlem for Want of Sense, than other Mad Libertines and Poets abroad, or any Sober Fools whatever.44 But in the end he felt powerless in the face of his addiction and the authorities, as expressed in his famous observation that: They said I was mad: and I said they were mad: damn them, they outvoted me!

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

He could see the poets Ambrose Philips and Thomas Tickell on the other side of the coffeehouse, sitting with his former mentor William Wycherley.

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

Indeed it was William Wycherley walking to their table.

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

When Sir Anthony Englefield had arranged his introduction to William Wycherley three or four years previously, Alexander had felt more excitement than from any other meeting in his life.

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

In comedy, during the first part of the period, stand Sir George Etherege and William Wycherley.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

There is reason to believe that among these was William Wycherley, the most licentious and hardhearted writer of a singularly licentious and hardhearted school.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829