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The Fair Penitent
Nicholas RoweFamous Nicholas Rowe Quotes
“At length the morn and cold indifference came.”
Act i, scene 1. Compare: "But with the morning cool reflection came", Sir Walter Scott, Chronicles of the Canongate, chap. iv. Scott also quotes this in his notes to "The Monastery", chapter iii, note 11; and with "calm" substituted for "cool" in "The Antiquary", chapter v.; and with "repentance" for "reflection" in "Rob Roy", chapter xii.
The Fair Penitent (1703)
“Your bounty is beyond my speaking;
But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.”
Jane Shore (1714), Act II, scene 1.
“As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,
And none could be unhappy but the great.”
Prologue. Compare: "None think the great unhappy, but the great", Edward Young, The Love of Fame, satire 1, line 238.
The Fair Penitent (1703)
“Is she not more than painting can express,
Or youthful poets fancy when they love?”
Act iii, scene 1.
The Fair Penitent (1703)
