Evidence: | What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words would often have been mine, if heaven had endowed me withsuch giant-powers of speech. Were ever lines more beautiful than the first five of the first night? Shakespeare might have written them. What a description of night! Less beautiful than Milton's so celebrated descrip- -tion of evening (book 4), but moresublime? [quotes from 'Night One'and 'Night two']... I wished I had marked all, or half, my favourite passages- they would shew you a mind fond of deep thought- a haughty spirit unyielding to the storms of time and circumstance - a heart when lulled in Friendship's lap. perhaps as warmly gentle as your own.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 10 Jul 1824 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Anne Lister |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 3 Apr 1791 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | inherited land and industrial property at Shibden Hall, near Halifax, Yorks. [inherits 1824] |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Edward Young |
Title: | The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 3034 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | M Green | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | A Spirited Yorkshirewoman | |
Place of Publication: | n/a | |
Date of Publication: | 1939 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 193 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | M Green, A Spirited Yorkshirewoman (1939), p. 193, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3034, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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