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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Death
Angels
Hands
Graves
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Legions
Atheism
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Dying
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