Author: William Congreve

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• Horace (6)
  • IN: The old batchelor. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, by Her Majesty's servants. Written by Mr. Congreve. (1707) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Quem tulit ad Scenam ventoso gloria Curru, Exanimat lentus Spectator; Sedulus inflat. Sic leve, Sic parvum est, animum quod landis avarum Subruit, aut reficit
    FROM: Epistles, (-14), Book, Italy
  • IN: The double-Dealer. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal. By Their Majesties servants. Written by Mr. Congreve. (1706) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Interdum tamen, & vocem Comaedia tollit.
    FROM: Ars Poetica, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: A pindarique ode, Humbly Offer'd to the Queen, on the Victorious Progress of Her Majesty's Arms, under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough. To which is prefix'd, A discourse on the pindarique ode. (1706) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tuque dum procedis, Io triumphe Non Semel dicemus, Io triumphe Civitas omnis; dabimusq; Divis Thura benignis.
    FROM: Ode 2, Book 4, (-13), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Love for love. A comedy. Acted at the Theatre in Little-Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants. Written by Mr. Congreve. (1704) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nudus agris, nudus nummis paternis, Insanire parat certa ratione modoque.
    FROM: Satires, Book 2, Satire 3, (-33), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The way of the world, a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants. (1706) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: Audire est Operae pretium, procedere recte Qui maecbis non vultis ---- Metuat doti deprensa.
    FROM: Satires, (-33), Poem, Italy
• Ovid (2)
  • IN: The judgment of Paris: a masque. Written by Mr. Congreve. Set severally to musick, by Mr. John Eccles, Mr. Finger, Mr. Purcel, and Mr. Weldon. (1701) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Vincis utramque Venus
    FROM: De arte amandi/The Art of Love, (2), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The mourning bride. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants. (1703) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Neque enim lex qequior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.
    FROM: De arte amandi/The Art of Love, (2), Poem, Italy
• Virgil (3)
  • IN: The tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas. A Pastoral. Lamenting the death of the late Lord Marquis of Blanford. Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Lord Godolphin, Lord High-Treasurer of England. (1703) Poem, British
    EPIGRAPH: Qualis populed maerens Philomena sub umbra Amissos queritur fetus ---------- miserabile Carmen Integrat, & maestis late loca quaestibus implet.
    FROM: Georgics, (-29), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The judgment of Paris: a masque. Written by Mr. Congreve. Set severally to musick, by Mr. John Eccles, Mr. Finger, Mr. Purcel, and Mr. Weldon. (1701) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: nemo ex hoc Numero ***mihi non donatus abibit
    FROM: Aeneid, (-19), Poem, Italy
• Horat (Horace) (2)
  • IN: The Way of the World (1700) Drama, British
    EPIGRAPH: Audire est operæ pretium, procedere recte Qui mœchos non vultis, [ut omni parte laborent].
    FROM: Lib. i. Sat. 2. [37-38] (Satires), (-33), Poem, Rome
• Terence (1)
  • IN: The double-Dealer. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal. By Their Majesties servants. Written by Mr. Congreve. (1706) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Huic equidem Consilio palmam do: hic me magnifice effero, qui vim tantam in me & potestatem habeam tantae astutiae, vera dicendo ut eos ambos fallam.
    FROM: Heauton Timorumenos, (-163), Play, Italy

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• Amy Butler Greenfield (1)
  • IN: Chantress Fury (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.
    FROM: The Mourning Bride, (1697), NULL, UK
• Samuel Richardson (1)
  • IN: The Paths of Virtue Delineated (1756) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Great blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, tho' a late, a sure reward succeeds.
    FROM: The Mourning Bride, (1697), Play, UK
• Sir Herbert Croft (1)
  • IN: Love and Madness (1780) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Hartwell: If this be not Love, is it madness and then it is pardonable.
    FROM: Old. Bat (The Old Bachelor), (1693), Play, NULL
• William Godwin (1)
  • IN: St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1799) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
    FROM: Love for Love, (1695), Play, UK
• Kristen Painter (1)
  • IN: Last Blood (2013) Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned— nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
    FROM: The Mourning Bride, (1697), Play, UK