Excerpt from The School of Pantagruel: An EssayOf the two writers I have named, Congreve was the most witty and brilliant. His style is sparkling and effervescent, as different from the solid and weighty diction of the Eliza bethan dramatists as champagne is from port. I think we English have a preference for the Lusitanian grape.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.