Edward Young: Herring

Edward Young was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on herring.

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“Final Ruin fiercely drives
Her plowshare o'er creation.”

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 167. Compare Robert Burns, To a Mountain Daisy: "Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom".

“With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,
Forever most divinely in the wrong.”

Edward Young

Satire VI, l. 105.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,
Nor take her tea without a strategem.”

Edward Young

Satire VI, l. 187.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 18.

“Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?
Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain;
And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 212.

“When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.”

Edward Young

Satire I, l. 17.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause;
An awful pause! prophetic of her end.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 23.

“Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 309.