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
“Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.”
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 81.
“Tis impious in a good man to be sad”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 676.
“Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 1011.
“T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—
Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 644.
“Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 128.
“Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!”
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VII, Line 496.
“Man makes a death which Nature never made.”
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 51.
“Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.”
The Revenge, Act IV, sc. i.
“Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 67.
“Truth never was indebted to a lie.”
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 788.
“A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 596.
“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.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 582.
“Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.”
The Revenge, Act V, sc. ii.
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;
Legions of angels can't confine me there.”
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 89.
