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."
“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
Quelle: 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
Quelle: 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
Quelle: 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
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 424.
“Man wants little, nor that little long.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 118.
“The house of laughter makes a house of woe.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Quelle: 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
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 177.
“Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 390.
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 309.
“Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 71.
“The course of Nature is the art of God.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Quelle: 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
Quelle: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 226.
“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”
Edward Young Night-Thoughts
Quelle: 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)
