Nicholas Rowe
Dramatist and Poet Laureate, 1674-1718
Cited as Rowe. — 43 quotations
Apprehend
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
as
I can place thee in such abject state, as help shall never find thee.
Basset
Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset.
Block
With moles . . . would block the port.
Blot
Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
Coy
Thus to coy it, With one who knows you too!
Differ
We 'll never differ with a crowded pit.
Equation
Again the golden day resumed its right, And ruled in just equation with the night.
Fatness
Rich in the fatness of her plenteous soil.
Form
The thought that labors in my forming brain.
Give
It is given me once again to behold my friend.
Glancing
When through the gancing lightnings fly.
Harbor
Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage.
Harness
Harnessed in rugged steel.
Harrow
My aged muscles harrowed up with whips.
Impracticable
This though, impracticable heart Is governed by a dainty-fingered girl.
Indifferently
I hope it may indifferently entertain your lordship at an unbending hour.
Iron
Iron years of wars and dangers.
Knock
When heroes knock their knotty heads together.
Meet
Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury From the fierce prince.
Pair
My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
Partnership
Rome, that ne'er knew three lordly heads before, First fell by fatal partnership of power.
Prevailing
Saints shall assist thee with prevailing prayers.
Privacy
Her sacred privacies all open lie.
Profusion
Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles?
Purport
They in most grave and solemn wise unfolded Matter which little purported.
Rankle
A malady that burns and rankles inward.
Rich
If life be short, it shall be glorious; Each minute shall be rich in some great action.
Scheme
He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief; 'T is fixed, 't is done, and both are doomed to death.
Sear
I'm seared with burning steel.
Senseless
The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows.
Shelterless
Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies.
Short
Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present.
Shoulder
Around her numberless the rabble flowed, Shouldering each other, crowding for a view.
Shrift
Therefore, my lord, address you to your shrift, And be yourself; for you must die this instant.
Sink
Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power Has sunk thy father more than all his years.
So
Here, then, exchange we mutually forgiveness; So may the guilt of all my broken vows, My perjuries to thee, be all forgotten.
Spring
Do not blast my springing hopes.
Take
I take thee at thy word.
Trail
When lightning shoots in glittering trails along.
Unbending
It may entertain your lordships at an unbending hour.
Wait
Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, And everlasting anguish be thy portion.
Worry
Let them rail, And worry one another at their pleasure.