Congreve

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"We turn them up and we measure them, they're dead pretty quickly," says Mr Congreve.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2023

Any woman of a certain age in anything by Shakespeare, Dickens, Congreve, Dryden or Sheridan.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021

The Restoration saw Britain’s first-ever professional actresses, and both Otway and Congreve helped them shine.

From The Guardian • May 21, 2019

“It’s got that same kind of cruelty,” says Rebeck, who looked at an obscure 17th-century suggestion Rickman made before settling on the Congreve staple.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2018

Sterne, Fielding, Smollett, Swift, must all be flung into the dusthole after Congreve, Wycherley, Jonson; Dryden, of course, follows these without delay, and Spencer, with his “Faerie Queene,” is the next victim.

From Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature by Besant, Annie