Influence
The playwright Thomas Killigrew drew upon Brome's The Novella for his Tomaso, or the Wanderer (1654). In the Restoration era, Aphra Behn borrowed from Tomaso for her play The Rover; when she was criticized for her derivativeness, Behn pointed out Killigrew's debt to Brome's play in her Postscript. (Behn was directly indebted to Brome for another work: her play The Debauchee is a rewrite of Brome's A Mad Couple Well-Match'd.)
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“Exhaust them, wrestle with them, let them not go until their blessing be won, and, after a short season, the dismay will be overpast, the excess of influence withdrawn, and they will be no longer an alarming meteor, but one more brighter star shining serenely in your heaven, and blending its light with all your day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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“If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign to us: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?”
—David Hume (1711–1776)