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Edward Moore
13 quotes
“This is adding insult to injuries.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) first seen 1748 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Foundling (1748) Act v. Sc. 5
“Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song x" (c. 1750s), St. 4 (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797, p. 172)
“But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song xii" (c. 1750s), St. 3 (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797, p. 174)
“O Poverty! thou source of human art, Thou great inspirer of the poet’s song!”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Hymn to Poverty", St. 1 (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, Edinburgh: Apollo Press, 1781, p. 154)
“Can’t I another’s face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lours, As if her merit lessen’d yours?”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals; Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate’er the Grecian Venus was.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But from the hoop’s bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The trav’ller, if he chance to stray, May turn uncensured to his way; Polluted streams again are pure, And deepest wounds admit a cure; But woman no redemption knows; The wounds of honour never close.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'll tell thee what it [the world] says: it calls me a villain: a treacherous husband; a cruel father; a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or, to say all in one short word, it calls me—gamester.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“’Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can't I another's face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lowers, As if _her_ merit lessen'd _yours_?”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source