“In records that defy the tooth of time.”
The Statesman's Creed.
Edward Young: 110 citations0 J'aime
Edward Young: Citations en anglais
“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”
Satire I, l. 51.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“And all may do what has by man been done.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 606.
“Great let me call him, for he conquered me.”
The Revenge (1721), Act I, sc. i.
“A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 641.
“Much learning shows how little mortals know;
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 519.
“Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.”
Satire II, l. 207.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“All men think all men mortal but themselves.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 424.
“Man wants little, nor that little long.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 118.
“The house of laughter makes a house of woe.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 757.
“There buds the promise of celestial worth.”
The Last Day, book iii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“By night an atheist half believes a God.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 177.
“Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 390.
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 309.
“Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 71.
“The course of Nature is the art of God.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 1267.
“Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself
That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 226.
“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 571.
London 1759, p. 28 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=h1IJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA28&dq=mysteries <br class="br">Conjectures on Original Composition (1759)
