Nicholas Rowe (writer) said to have suggested to Samuel Richardson the character of Clarissa Harlowe, as Lothario suggested Lovelace. Samuel Johnson noted of "The Fair Penitent" that, "The story is domestic, and therefore easily received by the imagination, and assimilated to common life; the diction is exquisitely harmonious, and soft or spritely as occasion requires." In 1704, Rowe tried his hand at comedy, producing "The Biter" at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which was unsuccessful, and Rowe returned to tragedy in "Ulysses" (1706). According to Johnson, this play was to share the fate of many such plays based on mythological heroes, as, "We have been
Fair Play (horse) tendency to pass on his savage temperament to his offspring in varying degrees. Belmont bred Hastings to Fairy Gold, a stakes winning daughter of Epsom Derby winner Bend Or. The resultant colt, foaled at Belmont's Nursery Stud, was Fair Play. His grandsire was Spendthrift, whose grandsire was the English Triple Crown champion West Australian. This sire line traces to the Godolphin Arabian. Fair Play was an attractive golden chestnut horse who stood at maturity. He was always highly strung but his behavior completely soured when he was sent to race in England in 1909. Subsequently, he would not allow a