“'T is impious in a good man to be sad.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
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Source: Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job
“Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”
Source: Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life
“There buds the promise of celestial worth.”
Source: Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life
“Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“The man that makes a character, makes foes.”
Source: Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works
Source: The Poems of Edward Young
“Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?”
Source: Conjectures on Original Composition: In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”
Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
“Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!”
Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts
“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”
Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life
“Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.”
Source: Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life
“Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
“A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.”
“Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.”
Source: Young ́s Night Thoughts
“Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.”
Source: The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts
“As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.”
Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts
“Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.”
Source: The Poetical works
Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts
“Midway from Nothing to the Deity!”
Source: Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes
Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins
“Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.”
Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
“And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.”
“Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?”
Source: The poetical works of Edward Young. Collated with the best eds.: by T. Park
Source: Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc
“A land of levity is a land of guilt.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.”
Source: The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts
“Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
Source: Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job
“Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.”
Source: The Complaint, Or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job
“In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.”
Source: The poetical works of Edward Young
“Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.”
Source: Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them
“Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.”
Source: The Complaint; Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality ... To which is Added, A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job
“Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.”
Source: The Poems of Edward Young ...
Source: The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts: In Four [i.e. Five] Volumes