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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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Work title:
"Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable The Earl of Wilmington [Night-Thoughts]"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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Metaphor Category:
"Liquid"
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Date: 1742
"Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied; / Speech, thought's canal! speech, thought's criterion too!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"'Tis thought's exchange which, like the' alternate push / Of waves conflicting, breaks the learned scum, / And defecates the student's standing pool."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Beware the counterfeit: in Passion's flame / Hearts melt; but melt like ice, soon harder froze."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)