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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“What an old tale is this!” Lorenzo cries.
I grant this argument is old; but truth
No years impair; and had not this been true,

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Thou never hadst despised it for its age.
Truth is immortal as thy soul; and fable
As fleeting as thy joys. Be wise, nor make
Heaven's highest blessing vengeance: O be wise!
Nor make a curse of immortality.

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