Wycherly's

Wycherly's comedies likewise depict a life which is nasty, brutish, and if not short, certainly hypocritical.

SENSE OF THE COMIC EDWARD G. BALLARD 1968

Wycherly's, Dryden's, or Otway's offensive plays in its original state,

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

I used to stand here, at this very spot, twenty years ago, to watch the moonlight between the trees, and the shadows of the trees floating over that beautiful dell; I used to think of Wycherly's comedy, "Love in St. James's Park," and I think of it still.

Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892

Hazlitt more daringly takes a different position and asserts that one of Wycherly's coarsest plays is 'worth ten sermons' -- which perhaps does not imply with him any high estimate of moral efficacy.

English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Leslie Stephen 1868

I can't think that it was the impression made upon Wycherly's readers.

English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Leslie Stephen 1868

Page 419 we fear, that he had also drank freely of fountains less undefiled; had dipped largely into the subsequent pages of the Wycherly's the Vanbrugh's, the Congreves, the Wilmot's, Etherege's and Rochester's, of a far less intellectual, and therefore less moral, period.

The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc. 1852

Port came into fashion -- port sapped our brains -- and, instead of Wycherly's _Country Wife_, and Vanbrugh's _Relapse_, we had

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 Various 1841

Sir Wycherly's hand trembled so much when it received the pen, that, for the moment, writing was out of the question, and it became necessary to administer a restorative in order to strengthen his nerves.

The Two Admirals James Fenimore Cooper 1820

You perceive, gentlemen, I have it in my possession on good authority, as it is addressed to me by name, and that, too, in Sir Wycherly's own hand-writing; the envelope is sealed with his private seal.

The Two Admirals James Fenimore Cooper 1820

The vice-admiral compared the seal on Wycherly's watch-chain with that on the ring, and, the bearings being principally griffins, he was enabled to see that one was the exact counterpart of the other.

The Two Admirals James Fenimore Cooper 1820