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And friend received with thumps upon the back.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Friend
Upon
Back
Received
Friendship

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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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