NRNicholas Rowe

6 collected words

Nicholas Rowe

Life dates: 1673 AD — 1718 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1695 AD

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, And none could be unhappy but the great.

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02c. 1695 AD

At length the morn and cold indifference came.

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03c. 1695 AD

Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy when they love?

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04c. 1695 AD

Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?

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05c. 1695 AD

Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done, Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner, The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow, Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand, Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee.

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06c. 1695 AD

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?

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