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"Night the Third. Narcissa. Inscribed to her Grace the Dutchess of P------. [Night-Thoughts]"
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"Animals"
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"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1742
"On minds of dove-like innocence possess'd, / On lighten'd minds, that bask in Virtue's beams, / Nothing hangs tedious; nothing old revolves / In that for which they long, for which they live."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Life makes the soul dependent on the dust; / Death gives her wings to mount above the spheres."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)