The life and letters of Edward Young . proposed a coalition, and deputedyou four ladies as a little committee to mankind, to showthat they still subsist, and to do them credit with the whether this be quite honest in those jades called goddesses,I leave to my Lord Duke and Mr. Achard to determine, to whomI beg duty, respect and service. * Although he did not excuse himself to the duchess on thataccount, it is probable that Youngs delay in visiting Bulstrodeon this occasion may have been due to his attending thefuneral of one of his neighbouring clerical friends. All throughhis life h
The life and letters of Edward Young . proposed a coalition, and deputedyou four ladies as a little committee to mankind, to showthat they still subsist, and to do them credit with the whether this be quite honest in those jades called goddesses,I leave to my Lord Duke and Mr. Achard to determine, to whomI beg duty, respect and service. * Although he did not excuse himself to the duchess on thataccount, it is probable that Youngs delay in visiting Bulstrodeon this occasion may have been due to his attending thefuneral of one of his neighbouring clerical friends. All throughhis life he was on amicable relations with the clergy in thevicinity of Welwyn, one of his closest intimates being the Hallows, of Allhall«vs, Hertford, who died in theOctober of this year. 2 It was Mr. Hallows daughter Marywho was to take charge of the poets household when CarolineLee left Welwyn for a home of her own. 1 Bath MSS. i, 267. 2 Young wrote the epitaph for Mr. Hallows whch is given in NicholsLiterary Anecdotes, ix, Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile ;Nor, like the Parthian, wound him as they fly. Night Thoughts, the design by Thomas Stothard CHAPTER VI THE NIGHT THOUGHTS 1742-1745 Youngs letters to the Duchess of Portland, especially in theearly period of the correspondence, were so largely impersonalthat they throw little light on the events as distinguished fromthe thoughts of his life. Such a reference as that occasionedby the illness of Mrs. Elstob, the expression of his hope that shewould not add to the great number of touching admonitions which Providence had lately given him of his own mortality,is almost exasperatingly indefinite in view of the influenceof his personal sorrows on his best-known poem. Had hespecified those admonitions he would have solved many of hisbiographers problems. The only bereavement he had sufferedwithin a few months of the date of that letter of which we haveany knowledge was the sudden death, in the previ
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