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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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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Fire"
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"Light"
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Date: 1742
"Full on ourselves descending in a line, / Pleasure's bright beam is feeble in delight: / Delight intense is taken by rebound; / Reverberated pleasures fire the breast."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)