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"Impressions"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Work title:
"The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Date: 1743
"No; in pity sent, / To melt him down, like wax, and then impress, / Indelible, Death's image on his heart; / Bleeding for others, trembling for himself."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Thus, a strange kind of cursed necessity / Brings down the sterling temper of his soul, / By base alloy, to bear the current stamp, / Below call'd Wisdom; sinks him into safety; / And brands him into credit with the world; / Where specious titles dignify disgrace, / And Nature's injuries are art...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)