Edward young born originals

Edward Young (c. 3 July 1683 – April 5, 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts.

Quotes

• In records that defy the tooth of time.

• Ah!
  Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies?

  what is human life?
  How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade,
  Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd!
  The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth;
  Too subtle is the movement to be seen;
  Yet soon the hour is up—and we are gone.

  • Busiris (1719), Act V, sc. i.

• Great let me call him, for he conquered me.
  • The Revenge (1721), Act I, sc. i.

• Life is the desert, life the solitude;
  Death joins us to the great majority.
  • The Revenge, Act IV, sc. i.

• Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
  With whom revenge is virtue.
  • The Revenge, Act V, sc.

    Edward Young — 'Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?'.

  • Edward Young — 'Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?'.
  • EDWARD YOUNG.
  • Edward Young — 'We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?'.
  • We are all born originals – why is it so many of us die copies?” — Quote by Edward Young.
  • In poetry, as in all art, you are copying someone somehow.

  ii.

• The blood will follow where the knife is driven,
  The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
  • The Revenge, Act V, sc. ii.

• In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the natur