Wycherley

The ideal hero of Wycherley or Etherege was the witty young profligate, who had seen life, and learned to disbelieve in virtue.

Wycherley reclaimed his papers, in a letter in which resentment shows itself plainly through the thin disguise of civility.

I do not agree with what Mr. Wycherley is supposed to have writ of him, but I do with what he certainly said of him, viz.

In this letter Pope had himself addressed to Caryll a remonstrance similar to that which he had received from Wycherley.