Edward Moore (March 22, 1712 – March 1, 1757) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, the son of a dissenting minister, born at Abingdon, Berkshire.
Quotes
- I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
- The Gamester (1753), Act ii. Sc. 2. Compare: "The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice", Samuel Johnson, in Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. Chap. ii.
- ’T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
- The Gamester (1753), Act iii. Sc. 4.
- Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.- "Song XII" (c. 1750s), St. 3; (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
- Quotes reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- 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?- The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat. Fable ix.
- The maid who modestly conceals
Her beauties, while she hides, reveals;
Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws
Whate’er the Grecian Venus was.- The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
- But from the hoop’s bewitching round,
Her very shoe has power to wound.- The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
- Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.- The Happy Marriage.
- Labour for his pains.
- The Boy and the Rainbow. Compare: "I have had my labour for my travail", William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act i., Sc. 1.
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