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.
Quotes
edit- 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)