Not prudence can defend or virtue save
- DMI number:
- 33599
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Not prudence can defend or virtue save
- Last Line:
- And sighs might sooner fail than cause to sigh
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Philosophic poetry, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Blank verse
- Themes:
- Philosophical enquiry and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Edward Young
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Night 1. Chalmers (1810) XIII: 420-423.
- Title:
- A collection of thoughts, moral and divine, upon various subjects, in prose and verse [T121928] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- The Author of Night Thoughts observes,
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of thoughts, moral and divine, upon various subjects, in prose and verse [T140912] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- The Author of Night Thoughts observes,
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of thoughts, moral and divine, upon various subjects, in prose and verse [T228009] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- The Author of Night Thoughts observes
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Thoughts Moral and Divine [T6265] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- Afflictions [...] And the Author of Night Thoughts observes,
- Attribution:
- the Author of Night Thoughts
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
Poem Aliases
Young. Night Thoughts. Night 1.
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