Name/Title
Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityEntry/Object ID
L9999.252.5082Description
Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality is a poem occasioned by a family distress; the loss of his wife and the two children, a son and a daughter, whom she had by first husband: these all died within a short time of each other in 1741. The son-in-law is characterized in this work by the name of Philander, and the young lady, who sunk into a decline through grief for the loss of her mother, by that of Narcissa. He removed her, in hope of her derivine benefit from a warmer climate, to Montpelier, in the south of France: but she died soon after their arrival in that city. The circumstance of his being obliged to bury her in a field by night, not being allowed interment in a church-yard, on account of her being a Protestant, is indelibly recorded in Night III of this divine poem.
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Author
Edward Young, LLd.Place Published
City
HaverhillCountry
EnglandContinent
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1820Call No.
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