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"The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. Night the Eighth"
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"The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. Night the Eighth"
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Date: 1745
"Though various are the tempers of mankind, / Pleasure's gay family hold all in chains."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Go, fix some weighty truth; / Chain down some passion; do some generous good; / Teach Ignorance to see, or Grief to smile; / Correct thy friend; befriend thy greatest foe; / Or, with warm heart, and confidence Divine, / Spring up, and lay strong hold on Him who made thee."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"His appetite wears Reason's golden chain, / And finds in due restraint its luxury."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
