 | 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
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Are there (still more amazing!) who resist
The rising thought? who smother, in its birth,
The glorious truth? who struggle to be brutes?
Who through this bosom-barrier burst their way;
And, with reversed ambition, strive to sink?
Who labour downwards through the' opposing powers
Of Instinct, Reason, and the World against them,
To dismal hopes, and shelter in the shock
Of endless night, night darker than the grave's?
Who fight the proofs of immortality?
With horrid zeal and execrable arts,
Work all their engines, level their black fires,
To blot from man this attribute Divine,
(Than vital blood far dearer to the wise,)
Blasphemers, and rank atheists to themselves?
| 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
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