Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
men lasts novelty
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
death tyrants portraits
Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.
men race looks
Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
ocean sleep water
In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.
gold want bread
Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
miracle satire mankind
What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.
fields next amusement
We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields
men wife soul
Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.
ungrateful guilt may
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
true-friend men doe
A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.
mad astronomers
An undevout astronomer is mad.
men long littles
Man wants little, nor that little long.
design care comfort
Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.
men hypocrisy veins
A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.