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"Poetry"
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"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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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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"Mineral"
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"Money"
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Date: 1742
"Thought in the mine may come forth gold or dross; / When coin'd in word, we know its real worth. / If sterling, store it for thy future use; / 'Twill buy thee benefit; perhaps, renown."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)