The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes

Young, Edward (1683-1765)

[VOLUME 1]

NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY:

PREFACE.

THE COMPLAINT.

NIGHT I. ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY.

II.

NIGHT II. ON TIME, DEATH, AND FRIENDSHIP.

III.

NIGHT III. NARCISSA.

IV.

NIGHT IV. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH.

NIGHT V. THE RELAPSE.

VI.

NIGHT VI. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED. IN TWO PARTS. CONTAINING THE NATURE, PROOF, AND IMPORTANCE OF IMMORTALITY. PART I.

VII.

NIGHT VII. BEING THE SECOND PART OF THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED: CONTAINING THE NATURE, PROOF, AND IMPORTANCE OF IMMORTALITY.

PREFACE.

CONTENTS OF NIGHT VII.

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VIII.

NIGHT VIII. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY; OR, THE MAN OF THE WORLD ANSWERED.

THE CONSOLATION.

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II.

[VOLUME II.]

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IMMORTAL! Ages past, yet nothing gone!
Morn without eve! a race without a goal,
Unshorten'd by progression infinite!
Futurity for ever future! Life
Beginning still where computation ends!
'Tis the description of a Deity!
'Tis the description of the meanest slave:
The meanest slave dares, then, Lorenzo scorn?
The meanest slave thy sovereign glory shares.
Proud youth, fastidious of the lower world!
Man's lawful pride includes humility;
Stoops to the lowest; is too great to find
Inferiors: all immortal! brothers all!
Proprietors eternal of thy love!

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