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Nicholas Rowe est un dramaturge et un poète anglais. Il accéda à la dignité de Poète Lauréat en 1715. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. juin 1674 – 6. décembre 1718
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Nicholas Rowe: Citations en anglais

“At length the morn and cold indifference came.”

Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent

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)

“Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?”

Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent

Act v, scene 1.
The Fair Penitent (1703)

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

Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent

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?”

Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent

Act iii, scene 1.
The Fair Penitent (1703)