Crossword-Solution: CONGREVE
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| CONGREVE | anagram | CONVERGE |
We have 6 clues for the answer “CONGREVE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast" poet William | 1 answer |
| Creator of Millamant. | 1 answer |
| He wrote "Way of the World." | 1 answer |
| Restoration dramatist. | 1 answer |
| Dramatist William | 2 answers |
| English dramatist. | 8 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "CONGREVE"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
10 +1
New Suggestion for "CONGREVE"
Related word tools
Sentences with CONGREVE (5)
Swinburne; in my innumerable gouty-footed lyrics, I followed many masters; in the first draft of _The King’s Pardon_, a tragedy, I was on the trail of no lesser man than John Webster; in the second draft of the same piece, with staggering versatility, I had shifted my allegiance to Congreve, and of course conceived my fable in a less serious vein—for it was not Congreve’s verse, it was his exquisite prose, that I admired and sought to copy.
Even Perkins's steam-gun was an old invention revived by Leonardo da Vinci and by him attributed to Archimedes.[8] The Congreve rocket is said to have an Eastern origin, Sir William Congreve having observed its destructive effects when employed by the forces under Tippoo Saib in the Mahratta war, on which he adopted and improved the missile, and brought out the invention as his own.
His was the selfish passion of Congreve’s Millamont, to whom love’s supreme delight lay in “that heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.” When the horse had been attended to Melbury stood uneasily here and there about his premises; he was rudely disturbed in the comfortable views which had lately possessed him on his domestic concerns.
Godwin Swift sent his nephew to Kilkenny School, where he had William Congreve among his schoolfellows.
Therefore be pleased to accept of this as an acknowledgment of the favour you have shewn me, and an earnest of the real service and gratitude of, Sir, your most obliged, humble servant, WILLIAM CONGREVE.
Quotes with CONGREVE (1)
Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer — Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus — Tragedies4. Sophocles — Tragedies5. Herodotus — Histories6. Euripides — Tragedies7. Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War8. Hippocrates — Medical Writings9. Aristophanes — Comedies10. Plato — Dialogues11. Aristotle — Works12. Epicurus — Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus13. Euclid — Elements14. Archimedes — Works15. Apollonius of Perga — Conic Sections16. Cicero — Works17…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1955–2009).