Frasi di Edward Young
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Edward Young è stato un poeta britannico.

Fu cappellano di Giorgio II d'Inghilterra e rettore a Welwyn. È l'autore dell'elegia Pensieri notturni o Il lamento .

L'opera a carattere autobiografico è uno sfogo, in cui l'autore espone in blank verse il suo pensiero sulla vita e sulla morte, unendo eleganza stilistica e intensità accorata.

Il poema ebbe grandissimo successo in Europa e fu tradotto in francese, tedesco, italiano, spagnolo, portoghese, svedese e ungherese.

Young è oggi poco ricordato nel mondo anglosassone, mentre è più noto in Francia. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Luglio 1683 – 5. Aprile 1765
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Edward Young frasi celebri

“Un Dio tutto misericordia è un Dio ingiusto.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Pensieri notturni

“Di notte un ateo crede quasi in un Dio.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Pensieri notturni

Edward Young Frasi e Citazioni

“Il corso della Natura è l'arte di Dio.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Pensieri notturni

Edward Young: Frasi in inglese

“None think the great unhappy but the great.”

Edward Young

Satire I, l. 238.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: 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.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: 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.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 81.

“Tis impious in a good man to be sad”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 676.

“Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 1011.

“T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—
Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 644.

“Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 128.

“Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 112.

“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VII, Line 496.

“Man makes a death which Nature never made.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: 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.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 376.

“And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 51.

“Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 67.

“Truth never was indebted to a lie.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 587.

“A Christian is the highest style of man.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 788.

“A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 596.

“Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new
(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 582.

“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;
Legions of angels can't confine me there.”

Edward Young Pensieri notturni

Origine: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 89.

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