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Wycherley

noun
1.
English playwright noted for his humorous and satirical plays (1640-1716).  Synonym: William Wycherley.






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... on the one side, and the love of money on the other. Pope courted with the utmost assiduity all the old men from whom he could hope a legacy, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Peterborough, Sir G. Kneller, Lord Bolingbroke, Mr. Wycherley, Mr. Congreve, Lord Harcourt, &c., and I do not doubt projected to sweep the Dean's whole inheritance, if he could have persuaded him to throw up his deanery, and come to die in his house; and his general preaching ...
— Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) • Lewis Melville

... you ever read the Memoirs? What a prodigious book! Do you remember when the Duchesse de Chartres comes to consult the cabale in the little apartment in the Palais Royal as to the best means of getting rid of the pimples on her face? ... and that scene (so exactly like something Wycherley might have written) when he meets the rich farmer's daughter travelling about with her old ...
— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore



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