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Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Hand colored by William Blake, 1757–1827
Text by Edward Young, 1683–1765
Published by Richard Edwards, active 1796–1797
Title:
'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)
Part Of:

Collective Title: Young's Night Thoughts

Date:
ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm), Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 7/8 inches (41.9 x 32.7 cm), Plate: 16 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches (41.3 x 32.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Lettered inside image: "10 | What numbers, once in fortune's lap high-fed, | Solicit the cold hand of charity-- | To shock us more--solicit it in vain! | Ye silken sons of pleasure! since in pains | You rue more modish visits, visit here, | And breathe from your debauch: give, and reduce | Surfeit's dominion o'er you--but so great | Your impudence, you blush at what is right. | Happy! did sorrow seize on such alone: | Not prudence can defend, or virtue save: | * Disease invades the chastest temperance, | And punishment the guiltless; and alarm, | Through thickest shades pursues the fond of peace. | Man's caution often into danger turns, | And, his guard falling, crushes him to death. | Not happiness itself makes good her name; | Our very wishes give us not our wish: | How distant oft the thing we doat on most, | From that for which we doat, felicity! | The smoothest course of nature has its pains; | And truest friends, through error, wound our rest. | Without misfortune--what calamities! | And what hostilities--without a foe! | Nor are foes wanting to the best on earth: | But endless is the list of human ills, | And sighs might sooner fail, than cause to sigh. | A part how small of the terraqueous globe | Is tenanted by man! the rest a waste; | Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands-- | Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death:"; lower left: "Pubd. June 27th 1796, by R. Edwards, No. 142 New Bond Street."

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.43.1384
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
crooks | dogs (animals) | ears | floating | literary theme | men | nudes | sheep | shepherds | sleeping | text | vials | women
Access:
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2307
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