John Brent (antiquary)

John Brent (21 August 1808 – 23 April 1882) was an English antiquary, novelist, and poet.

• O, what makes woman lovely? Virtue, faith,
  And gentleness in suffering—an endurance
  Through scorn or trial. These call beauty forth,
  Give it the stamp celestial, and admit it
  To sisterhood with angels.
  • "Beauty", Village Bells, Lady Gwendoline, and Other Poems, 2nd ed. (1868), p. 136

• Henry Southgate (ed.) What Men Have Said about Woman (1866), p. 17
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