Edward Young słynne cytaty
„Kobiety stworzono na radość oczu naszych.”
Źródło: Władysław Kopaliński, Encyklopedia „drugiej płci”, Warszawa 1990, s. 522.
Edward Young: Cytaty po angielsku
“And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 17.
“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 1.
“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 55.
“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 1045.
“Final Ruin fiercely drives
Her plowshare o'er creation.”
Źródło: 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".
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 271.
“An undevout astronomer is mad.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 771.
“The booby father craves a booby son,
And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone.”
Satire II, l. 165.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“On reason build resolve,
that column of true majesty in man.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 30.
“Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 292.
“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 843.
Conjectures on Original Composition (1759) p. 28.
“Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 466.
“Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 63.
“Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 334.
“With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,
Forever most divinely in the wrong.”
Satire VI, l. 105.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 10.
“Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 399.
