Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 104.
Edward Young: 110 citations0 J'aime
Edward Young: Citations en anglais
“None think the great unhappy but the great.”
Satire I, l. 238.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 600.
“"I've lost a day!"—the prince who nobly cried,
Had been an emperor without his crown.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 99. Suetonius says of the Emperor Titus: "Once at supper, reflecting that he had done nothing for any that day, he broke out into that memorable and justly admired saying, ‘My friends, I have lost a day!'" Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Cæsars (translation by Alexander Thomson).
“Beautiful as sweet!
And young as beautiful! and soft as young!
And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 81.
“Tis impious in a good man to be sad”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 676.
“Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 1011.
“T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—
Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 644.
“Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 128.
“Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 112.
“Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.”
Satire I, l. 145.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VII, Line 496.
“Man makes a death which Nature never made.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 15.
“Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,
And ask them what report they bore to heaven.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 376.
“For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,
Nor take her tea without a strategem.”
Satire VI, l. 187.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 51.
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 90.
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 627.
“Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 67.
“Truth never was indebted to a lie.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 587.
“How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.”
Satire VII, l. 97.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“A Christian is the highest style of man.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 788.
“A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 596.
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 18.
“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
Satire I, l. 89.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new
(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 582.
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;
Legions of angels can't confine me there.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 89.
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 212.
