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Work title:
"The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. Night the Eighth"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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Metaphor Category:
"Government"
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1745
"Conscience, her first law broken, wounded lies; / Enfeebled, lifeless, impotent to good; / A feign'd affection bounds her utmost power."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Follow Nature still, / But look it be thine own: is Conscience then / No part of Nature? Is she not supreme? / Thou regicide! O raise her from the dead!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Could human courts take vengeance on the mind, / Axes might rust, and racks and gibbets fall: / Guard then thy mind, and leave the rest to fate."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)