Edward Young

Albert. A Legendary Tale has its own illustrated title-page, and a quotation from Edward Young as epigraph. In it RR nicely evokes the Knights of St John, one of whom is the protagonist here...

The epigraph is a quotation from Edward Young about merit in a low estate. This novel traces the tortuous path towards happy marriage of a young man (instead of a young woman) and presents relations...

BP began this novel as a story about Hilary and me as spinsters of fiftyish—that is, about a then unimaginable future. Its dry humour and irony, its concentration on middle-aged spinsters, clergy, and the...

Referring to her three dead children EG writes of Death: Thrice his darts flew. This is a near quotation from Edward Young 's Night Thoughts (the passage beginning Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice...

The novel parodies Germaine de Staël 's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope and Cowper , but also texts...

The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young , the Bible, Macpherson 's Ossian and Homer 's Odyssey, Sterne and Smollett

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

AY 's mother and elder brother both guided her early development towards bookishness. Their small store of books included Edward Young 's Night Thoughts, an importance influence on her poetry.

The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML may have been one among...

The title-page quotes Edward Young on the dangers, for a woman, of love. An Advertisement calls the author only an editor of a French original, but says so many changes have been made that little...

The epigraph on the first title-page is the sonnet by Queen Elizabeth beginning The toppe of hope, now generally known by the title of Doubt of Future Foes. The second volume's title-page is...

HC 's first title-page bears a quotation from Edward Young . Her introductory address apologises for imperfections which she trusts the critical reader to overlook, and says she means her work primarily for the younger...

LMWM acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage and Henry Fielding , but also Edward Young and Samuel Boyse . Books to which...

MJY translated Lindorf and Caroline; or, The Danger of Credulity in March 1803, from the German allegedly of Karl Gottlieb Cramer , though more likely of Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert . She dedicated it to...