THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

EDWARD YOUNG.
D YOUNG.

VOLUME I.

XA 372/147

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK: EVANS AND DICKERSON.

PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, AND CO.
M.DCCC.LIV.

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

LIFE OF YOUNG, by the Rev. J. Mitford.

THE COMPLAINT; OR, NIGHT THOUGHTS.

Night I. ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY

II. ON TIME, DEATH, AND FRIENDSHIP

III. NARCISSA

IV. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH

V. THE RELAPSE

VI. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED, Part I.

VII. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED, Part II.

IN the Sixth Night arguments were drawn, from Na-

ture, in proof of immortality: here, others are drawn from

Man: from his discontent, p. 161; from his passions and

powers, 162; from the gradual growth of reason, 162; from

his fear of death, 163; from the nature of hope, 163; and

of virtue, 164, &c.; from knowledge, and love, as being

the most essential properties of the soul, 168; from the

order of creation, 169, &c.; from the nature of ambition,

171, &c. Avarice, 175; pleasure, 176. A digression on

the grandeur of the passions, 177, &c. Immortality alone

renders our present state intelligible, 178. An objection

from the stoics' disbelief of immortality answered, 179.

Endless questions unresolvable, but on supposition of our

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immortality, 180. The natural, most melancholy, and pa-

thetic complaint of a worthy man, under the persuasion

of no futurity, 182, &c. The gross absurdities and horrors

of annihilation urged home on Lorenzo, 189, &c. The

soul's vast importance, 194, &c.; from whence it arises,

195, &c. The difficulty of being an infidel, 198; the in-

famy, 199; the cause, 200; and the character, 201, of an

infidel state. What true free-thinking is, 202; the ne-

cessary punishment of the false, 203. Man's ruin is from

himself, 204. An infidel accuses himself of guilt and

hypocrisy; and that of the worst sort, 205. His obliga-

tions to Christians, 206. What danger he incurs by

virtue, 206. Vice recommended to him, 207. His high

pretences to virtue, and benevolence, exploded, 207. The

conclusion, on the nature of faith, 208. Reason, 209; and

Hope, 210; with an apology for this attempt, 210.

VIII. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY; OR, THE MAN OF THE