Authority Cited: Rowe
Author name and dates: Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; functionary; dramatist; successful tragedies; researched Shakespeare life for edition; SJ praised paraphrase of Lucan
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 100 Rowe cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 140 in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. The editions of dramatic works and poems that SJ used is unknown. The sample of headwords below is principally from letters A-D, H, L, R, and W. Five citations, in bold italic below, were added in the 1773 Dict.]
Author name and dates: Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; functionary; dramatist; successful tragedies; researched Shakespeare life for edition; SJ praised paraphrase of Lucan
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 100 Rowe cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 140 in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. The editions of dramatic works and poems that SJ used is unknown. The sample of headwords below is principally from letters A-D, H, L, R, and W. Five citations, in bold italic below, were added in the 1773 Dict.]
- The Dramatick Works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq; Volume the First Containing, The Ambitious Step-Mother. Tamerlane. The Fair Penitent. Ulysses; Volume the Second, Containing, The Royal Convert, Jane Shore, Jane Gray, The Biter. 1728, London: printed for J. T. And sold by J. Brotherton, at the Bible, next the Fleece Tavern, in Cornhill,
- Ambitious Stepmother; bar; be; bite; cause; count; decree; dissemble; lay;
- Fair Penitent; ambassadress;
- Jane Gray; dronish;
- Jane Shore; abortion; agonize; all-judging; amble; away; beset; biding; by; charitable; clay-cold; coy; devote; gospeller; ha; harbour; hark; heart; heart-wounding; hilding; lavish; lean; leech; libertine; revel-rout; wane; whine;
- Royal Convert; bating; burn; chalky; chasten; chill; come; confest; haply; harbour; hide; hurry; rave; wore;
- Tamerlane; hail;
- [Callipaedia inThe poetical works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq. 1715, London : printed for E. Curll at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet]; bomb
- [Colin's Complaint in The poetical works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq. 1715, London : printed for E. Curll at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet]; frolick [BKG Note: thanks to Anthony Lee for identifying this text.]
- [Lucan's Pharsalia. Translated into English verse by Nicholas Rowe, Esq; Servant to His Majesty. 1718, London : printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's-Head over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand]; breast (added in 1773 Dict.); devious (added in 1773 Dict.); doff; dragon; privacy (added in 1773 Dict.); with (2); wound (added in 1773 Dict.);
- [Ode for the New Year, 1717 in Poems on several occasions, and translations. By Nicholas Rowe, Esq. 1717, Glasgow: printed by Robert Urie; snowy [BKG Note: thanks to Anthony Lee for identifying this text. A contemporary publication has not been identified. The poem is perhaps ghostwritten by John Hughes.]
- [Verses made to a Simile of Pope's in The poetical works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq; late servant to his majesty. 1720, London : printed for J. Tonson, E. Curll, T. Jauncy, A. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, J. Pemberton, J. Hooke, C. Rivington, R. Cruttenden, T. Cox, J. Battely, F. Clay and E. Symon]; sneaking (added in 1773 Dict.);
- Rowe (no work cited); blot (RC); bound (RC); brand (AS); caper (AS); cold (RC); compliance (RC); concert (RC); cross (RC); damned (AS); differ (T: Epilogue); do (JG); do (JS); eldership (AS); harness (AS); harrow (RC); high-born (JS); hoary (RC); hood-wink (RC); hug (RC); humanity (JS); humble (AS); impetuous (RC); lamp (RC); leap (RC); loathe (RC); lonely (RC); maiden (AS); rankle (RC); reach (AS); repay (AS); return (AS); rich (RC); rive (RC); sallow (JS); stab (AS); wait (JS); wake (AS); way (AS); weep (RC); wheedle (JS); whiffle (JS); whimper (JS; same quote as wheedle); witness (AS); worry (JG); wrought (AS);