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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Encouragement
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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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.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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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.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
Edward Young