Edward Moore
English dramatist and writer
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
edit- Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.- "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.- "Song xii" (c. 1750s), St. 3; (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797), p. 174.
Fables for the Female Sex (1744)
edit- Fables for the Female Sex (London: R. Francklin, 1744)
- 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?- Fable ix: "The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat", p. 55.
- The maid who modestly conceals
Her beauties, while she hides, reveals;
Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws
Whate’er the Grecian Venus was.- Fable x: "The Spider and the Bee", p. 62.
- But from the hoop’s bewitching round,
Her very shoe has power to wound.- Fable x: "The Spider and the Bee", p. 63.
The Gamester (1753)
edit- 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.
- Act ii, Sc. 1.
- I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
- 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.
- ’Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
- Act iii. Sc. 4.
Misattributed
edit- Labour for his pains.
- Attributed to Moore in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and elsewhere, but actually from William Wilkie's "The Boy and the Rainbow", line 78, in his book Fables (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768) , p. 45.
- Compare: "I have had my labour for my travail", William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act i., Sc. !.