Edward Young war ein englischer Dichter.
„Das Leben lebt erst jenseits des Grabes.“
Klagen, 3. Nacht. In: Klagen, oder Nachtgedanken über Leben, Tod, und Unsterblichkeit. Übersetzt von Johann Arnold Ebert. Band 1. Leipzig: Schwickert, 1790, S. 256, Vers 510
Original engl.: "Life lives beyond the Grave."
„Der Aufschub ist ein Dieb der Zeit.“
Klagen, 1. Nacht. In: Klagen, oder Nachtgedanken über Leben, Tod, und Unsterblichkeit. Übersetzt von Johann Arnold Ebert. Band 1. Leipzig: Schwickert, 1790, S. 64 f., Vers 392
Original engl.: "Procrastination is the Thief of Time."
„Der Mensch braucht nur wenig; und auch dieses Wenige nicht lange.“
Klagen, 4. Nacht. In: Klagen, oder Nachtgedanken über Leben, Tod, und Unsterblichkeit. Übersetzt von Johann Arnold Ebert. Band 1. Leipzig: Schwickert, 1790, S. 284 f., Vers 118
Original engl.: "Man wants but Little; nor that Little, long."
“Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 600.
“"I've lost a day!"—the prince who nobly cried,
Had been an emperor without his crown.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 99. Suetonius says of the Emperor Titus: "Once at supper, reflecting that he had done nothing for any that day, he broke out into that memorable and justly admired saying, ‘My friends, I have lost a day!'" Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Cæsars (translation by Alexander Thomson).
“Beautiful as sweet!
And young as beautiful! and soft as young!
And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 81.
“Tis impious in a good man to be sad”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 676.
“Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 1011.
“T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—
Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 644.
“Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 128.
“Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 112.
“Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.”
Satire I, l. 145.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VII, Line 496.
“Man makes a death which Nature never made.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 15.
“Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,
And ask them what report they bore to heaven.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 376.
“For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,
Nor take her tea without a strategem.”
Satire VI, l. 187.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 51.
“Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.”
The Revenge, Act IV, sc. i.
“Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 67.
“Truth never was indebted to a lie.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 587.
“How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.”
Satire VII, l. 97.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“A Christian is the highest style of man.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 788.
“A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 596.
“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
Satire I, l. 89.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new
(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 582.
“Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.”
The Revenge, Act V, sc. ii.
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;
Legions of angels can't confine me there.”
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 89.
