Congreve in a sentence

It is believed that Congreve was forced off of the stage due to growing concerns about the morality of the comedies that Congreve was producing.

From left, Warriors Morgan Williams, George Congreve, Ben Morley, with Kay Richardson, from M&K Racing, and Warriors Arran Butcher and team manager, Steve Piper.

Keeper, National Museum, and Sara Dolan, Commercial Director, Mount Congreve Gardens and Waterford Treasures.

Bromley have signed Cameron Congreve on a season-long loan from Championship side Swansea City.

Although no longer on the stage, Congreve continued his literary art.

Congreve assumed the pseudonym Cleophil and went on to publish a work he had written at the approximate age of 17 called Incognita: or, Love and Duty reconcil'd in 1692.

Congreve never married; in his own era and through subsequent generations, he was famous for his friendships with prominent actresses and noblewomen for whom he wrote major parts in all his plays.

It was as the last character in Congreve's Love for Love that Sir Joshua Reynolds painted the best-known of his half-dozen or more portraits of her (illustration, left).

Later life Congreve withdrew from the theatre and lived the rest of his life on residuals from his early work, the royalties received when his plays were produced, as well as his private income.

Literary career William Congreve is seen as the man who shaped the English comedy of manners through his use of satire and well written dialogue.

Military technology like steamboats and Congreve rockets forced China to open trade with the West on Western terms.

Particularly notable was the use of incendiary Congreve rockets (containing phosphorus, which cannot be extinguished with water) that randomly hit the city.

Regardless of this career change Congreve continued his writing, although it was in a very different style.

Richard Congreve visited Paris shortly after the French Revolution of 1848 where he met Auguste Comte and was heavily influenced by his positivist system.

Samuel Johnson doubted Congreve's claim to have been born in Bardsey, Yorkshire in 1670 ("Neither the time nor place of his birth are certainly known; if the inscription upon his monument be true, he was born in 1672.

She was the actress that went on to hold many of the female lead roles in the works of Congreve.

The poetical works of William Congreve.

This shift in allowing women to perform could be seen in the works of Congreve.

This support would take the form of panegyrical introductions for some of Congreve's later works.

When Congreve repudiated their Paris co-religionists in 1878, Beesly, Harrison, Bridges, and others formed their own positivist society, with Beesly as president, and opened a rival centre, Newton Hall, in a courtyard off Fleet Street.