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  • William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
    In William Congreve: Legacy of William Congreve

    …was praised in Giles Jacob’s Poetical Register (1719), where he is described as being “so far from being puff’d up with Vanity…that he abounds with Humility and good Nature. He does not shew so much the Poet as the Gentleman.” The last phrase will serve as a comment on the…

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