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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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Work title:
"Night the Third. Narcissa. Inscribed to her Grace the Dutchess of P------. [Night-Thoughts]"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Date: 1742
"Lorenzo! no; the thought of death indulge; / Give it its wholesome empire! let it reign, / That kind chastiser of thy soul in joy!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Its reign will spread thy glorious conquests far, / And still the tumults of thy ruffled breast: / Auspicious era! golden days, begin!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Is not the mighty mind, that son of heaven, / By tyrant Life dethroned, imprison'd, pain'd? / By Death enlarged, ennobled, deified? / Death but entombs the body; Life, the soul."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)