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  • The templar -- the wit -- the man of pleasure and the man of fashion, the courtier and the citizen, the knight and the squire, the lover and the miser -- Lovelace, Lothario, Will Honeycomb and Sir Roger de Coverley, Sparkish and Lord Foppington, Western and

    Obiter Dicta Second Series Augustine Birrell 1891

  • He was the original Sparkish in Wycherley's "Country Wife," Lord Plausible in the same author's "Plain Dealer," and Tom Errand in Farquhar's "Constant Couple."

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

  • In the introduction to the Miscellanies, he refers to “a slight Pique” with Wilks; and it is not impossible that the key to the difference may be found in the following passage: ” “Sparkish.

    Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

  • This, however, will be more conveniently treated under its proper date, and it is only necessary to say here that the slight sketches of Marplay and Sparkish given in the first edition, were presumably intended for Cibber and Wilks, with whom, notwithstanding the “civil and kind Behaviour” for which he had thanked them in the “Preface” to Love in Several Masques, the young dramatist was now, it seems, at war.

    Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

  • These consisted chiefly in the substitution of Marplay Junior for Sparkish, the actor-manager of the first version.

    Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

  • This, however, will be more conveniently treated under its proper date, and it is only necessary to say here that the slight sketches of Marplay and Sparkish given in the first edition, were presumably intended for Cibber and Wilks, with whom, notwithstanding the "civil and kind Behaviour" for which he had thanked them in the "Preface" to _Love in Several Masques_, the young dramatist was now, it seems, at war.

    Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

  • These consisted chiefly in the substitution of Marplay Junior for Sparkish, the actor-manager of the first version.

    Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

  • She jilts Sparkish, a conceited fop, and marries Harcourt.

    Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

  • These consisted chiefly in the substitution of Marplay Junior for Sparkish, the actor-manager of the first version.

    Fielding 1843

  • This, however, will be more conveniently treated under its proper date, and it is only necessary to say here that the slight sketches of Marplay and Sparkish given in the first edition, were presumably intended for Cibber and Wilks, with whom, notwithstanding the “civil and kind Behaviour” for which he had thanked them in the “Preface” to Love in Several Masques, the young dramatist was now, it seems, at war.

    Fielding 1843

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