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"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Augustan"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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Work title:
"The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth [Night-Thoughts]"
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Metaphor Category:
"Liquid"
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"Mineral"
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Date: 1743
"We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile: / The mind turns fool before the cheek is dry. / Our quick-returning folly cancels all; / As the tide rushing rases what is writ / In yielding sands, and smooths the letter'd shore."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"Some hearts, in secret hard, unapt to melt, / Struck by the magic of the public eye, / Like Moses' smitten rock, gush out amain."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)