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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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"The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth [Night-Thoughts]"
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"Government"
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Date: 1743
"It pleads exemption from the laws of Sense; / Considers Reason as a leveller; / And scorns to share a blessing with the crowd."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1743
"Is this the cause Death flies all human thought? / Or is it Judgment by the Will struck blind, / (That domineering mistress of the soul,) / Like him so strong, by Delilah the fair?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)