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"The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality"
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Date: 1743
"Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords / Light, but not heat; it leaves you undevout, / Frozen at heart, while speculation shines."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)