Frances Brooke

English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator (1724-1789)

Frances Brooke (née Moore; 12 January 1724 – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator.

Frances Brooke (circa 1771)

Quotes

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  • Her mouth, which a smile,
    Devoid of all guile,
      Half opens to view,
    Is the bud of the rose
    In the morning that blows,
      Impearl’d with the dew.
    More fragrant her breath
    Than the flow’r-scented heath
      At the dawning of day;
    The hawthorn in bloom,
    The lily’s perfume,
      Or the blossoms of may.
    • "Air" from William Shield’s Rosina (1783)
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