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• At length the morn and cold indifference came. -- Nicholas Rowe (1673-1718) -- The Fair Penitent, Act i, Sc.
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• Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario? -- Nicholas Rowe (1673-1718) -- The Fair Penitent, Act v, Sc.
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• Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy when they love?
  -- Nicholas Rowe (1673-1718) -- The Fair Penitent, Act iii, Sc. 1...
• Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune -- Nicholas Ling
• None think the great unhappy but the great.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i, Line 238...
• But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Tempest, Prologue...
• For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.
  -- Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773) -- Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanu...
• If you would have the nuptial union last, Let virtue be the bond that ties it fast.
  -- Nicholas Rowe...