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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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"Early Modern"
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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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"Male"
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"Poetry"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Date: 1742
"A soul immortal, spending all her fires, / Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, / Thrown into tumult, raptured, or alarm'd, / At aught this scene can threaten, or indulge, / Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, / To waft a feather, or to drown a fly."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)