"On minds of dove-like innocence possess'd, / On lighten'd minds, that bask in Virtue's beams, / Nothing hangs tedious; nothing old revolves / In that for which they long, for which they live."
Night the Third. Narcissa. Inscribed to her Grace the Dutchess of P------. [Night-Thoughts]
Uniform title published in 9 volumes, from 1742 to 1745. At least 133 reprintings after 1745 in ESTC (1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1755, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1787,  1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800).<br>
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See Edward Young, <u>Night the Third. Narcissa. Inscribed to her Grace the Dutchess of P------.</u> (London: R. Dodsley, 1742). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB127555063&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose, of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.</u>, 2 vols. (London: William Tegg, 1854). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ixYUAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt; Reading Edward Young, <u>Night Thoughts</u>, ed. Stephen Cornford (New York: Cambridge UP, 1989).