Edward Young citations

Edward Young, né le juin 1681 à Upham , Hampshire et mort le 5 avril 1765 à Welwyn, est un poète romantique anglais.

Son âme tourmentée laissa à la postérité une œuvre personnelle et profonde ; son poème Plaintes ou Pensées nocturnes sur la vie, la mort et l’immortalité , connu sous le nom de Nuits, inaugura d'un genre sombre et mélancolique le romantisme anglais. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. juillet 1683 – 5. avril 1765
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Edward Young: Citations en anglais

“And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 17.

“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 1.

“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 55.

“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 1045.

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

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

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".

“He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 271.

“An undevout astronomer is mad.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 771.

“On reason build resolve,
that column of true majesty in man.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 30.

“Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 292.

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 843.

“Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 466.

“Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 63.

“Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 334.

“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 441.

“Time elaborately thrown away.”

The Last Day, book i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“By all means use some time to be alone.”

A slight misquotation of George Herbert "The Church Porch", line 145: "By all means use sometimes to be alone", in The Temple (1633).
Misattributed

“The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,
The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 10.

“Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 399.

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