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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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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, and Immortality"
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"Poetry"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Date: 1743
"We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile: / The mind turns fool before the cheek is dry. / Our quick-returning folly cancels all; / As the tide rushing rases what is writ / In yielding sands, and smooths the letter'd shore."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)