Nicholas Rowe on Memorial Day
d. 1718 England
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4 quotes
Your bounty is beyond my speaking;
But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.
Jane Shore (1714)
Death is the privilege of human nature,
And life without it were not worth our taking:
Thither the poor, the pris'ner, and the mourner
Fly for relief, and lay their burthens down.
The Fair Penitent (1703)
War, the needy bankrupt's last resort.
Righteous Heaven,
In thy great day of vengeance! Blast the traitor
And his pernicious counsels, who, for wealth,
For pow'r, the pride of greatness, or revenge,
Would plunge his native land in civil wars.
Jane Shore (1714)