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
“In records that defy the tooth of time.”
The Statesman's Creed.
“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”
Satire I, l. 51.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“And all may do what has by man been done.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 606.
“Great let me call him, for he conquered me.”
The Revenge (1721), Act I, sc. i.
“A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 641.
“Much learning shows how little mortals know;
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 519.
“Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.”
Satire II, l. 207.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“All men think all men mortal but themselves.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 424.
“Man wants little, nor that little long.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 118.
“The house of laughter makes a house of woe.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 757.
“There buds the promise of celestial worth.”
The Last Day, book iii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“By night an atheist half believes a God.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 177.
“Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 390.
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 309.
“Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 71.
“The course of Nature is the art of God.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 1267.
“Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself
That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 226.
“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Źródło: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 571.
London 1759, p. 28 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=h1IJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA28&dq=mysteries <br class="br">Conjectures on Original Composition (1759)
