Frances Brooke Quotes

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.

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Birth Name: Frances Moore

Alternative Names: Frances Moore Brooke • Mary Singleton, spinster

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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.