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"The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth [Night-Thoughts]"
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Date: 1743
"Darkness has more divinity for me: / It strikes thought inward; it drives back the soul / To settle on herself, our point supreme! / There lies our theatre; there sits our judge."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"Dearly pays the soul / For lodging ill; too dearly rents her clay."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"When against Reason Riot shuts the door, / And Gaiety supplies the place of Sense, / Then foremost, at the banquet and the ball, / Death leads the dance, or stamps the deadly die."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)