Edward Moore

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.

External links

• Works by Edward Moore at Project Gutenberg