Thomas Otway – angielski poeta i dramatopisarz doby Restauracji. Jego najbardziej znane sztuki to Don Carlos i The Orphan. Wikipedia
“Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life;
Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o’er thee.”
Thomas Otway Venice Preserv'd
Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart", Thomas Gray, The Bard, part i. stanza 3.
Thomas Otway The Orphan
The Orphan (1680), Act iii. Sc. 1. Compare: "O woman, woman! when to ill thy mind/ Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend", Alexander Pope, Homer’s Odyssey, book xi., line 531.
Thomas Otway Venice Preserv'd
Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act i. Sc. 1.
“Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.”
Thomas Otway The Orphan
The Orphan (1680), Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Let us swear an eternal friendship", John Hookham Frere, The Rovers, act i. sc. 1.
Thomas Otway Venice Preserv'd
Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act v. Sc. 3.
