Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
thinking practice june
I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
men views brave
Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
shining prosperity comets
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
hate heart giving
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
revenge self honor
What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?
time thinking long
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.
mystery-of-nature
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
thinking soul solitude
O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
thinking greatness unhappy
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
men hard-times tough-times
Affliction is a good man's shining time.
brother smart heart
Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
doctors alternatives strange
A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?
world admire enjoy
They most the world enjoy who least admire.
Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.