THE COMPLAINT; OR, NIGHT THOUGHTS, ON LIFE, DEATH, AND Immortality BY EDWARD YOUNG, L. L. D. WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 111, CHEAPSIDE. 1815. MEMOIRS OF THE LATE DR. EDWARD YOUNG. EDWARD YOUNG, L. L. D. author of the Night Thoughts, and many other excellent pieces, was the only son of Dr. Edward Young, an eminent, learned, and judicious divine, dean of Sarum, fellow of Winchester college, and rector of Upham, in Hampshire. He was born in the year 1684, at Upham; and, after being educated in Winchester college, was chosen on the foundation of New College at Oxford, October 13th, 1703, when he was nineteen years of age; but being superannuated * and there being no vacancy of a fellowship, he removed before the expiration of the year to Corpus Christi, where he entered himself a gentleman commoner. In 1708, he was put into a law fellowship, at all Souls, by Archbishop Tennison. Here he took the degree of B. C. L. in 1714, and in 1719, Disqualified on account of his years. |