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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Augustan"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Work title:
"The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth [Night-Thoughts]"
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"War"
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Date: 1743
"Pleasure and Pride, by nature mortal foes, / At war eternal which in man shall reign, / By Wit's address, patch up a fatal peace, / And hand in hand lead on the rank debauch, / From rank refined to delicate and gay."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)