The booby father craves a booby son,
And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
-- Love of Fame, Satire ii, Line 165
And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
-- Love of Fame, Satire ii, Line 165
Related:
- Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire ii... - Where Nature's end of language is declin'd,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.
Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire ii... - Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire ii... - And waste their music on the savage race.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
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Love of Fame, Satire v, Line... - None think the great unhappy but the great.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
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Love of Fame, Satire i, Line... - They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,
Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i... - The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,
Reigns more or less,
and glows in ev'ry heart. -- Edward Young (1684-1765)... - How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire vii... - Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i...
