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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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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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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Work title:
"Night the Fourth. The Christian Triumph. Containing the Only Cure for the Fear of Death, and Proper Sentiments of Heart on that Inestimable Blessing. Humbly Inscribed to the Honourable Mr. York [Night-Thoughts]"
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Date: 1743
"And is devotion virtue? 'Tis compell'd: / What heart of stone but glows at thoughts like these?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"The beam dim Reason sheds shows wonders there; / What high contents, illustrious faculties!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"Beyond long ages, yet roll'd up in shades / Unpierced by bold Conjecture's keenest ray, / What evolutions of surprising fate!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)