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"Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable The Earl of Wilmington [Night-Thoughts]"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1742
"Not the gross act alone employs her pen; / She reconnoitres Fancy's airy band, / A watchful foe! the formidable spy, / Listening, o'erhears the whispers of our camp; / Our dawning purposes of heart explores, / And steals our embryos of iniquity."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)