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"Machine"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth [Night-Thoughts]"
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"From Tory to Whig"
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Date: 1743
"Though grey our heads, our thoughts and aims are green; / Like damaged clocks, whose hand and bell dissent; / Folly sings six, while Nature points at twelve."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"That thought is the machine, / The grand machine that heaves us from the dust, / And rears us into men!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)