“Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.”
Source: The Poems of Edward Young ...
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Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
Source: Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]
“With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.”
Source: The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran
“Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions: