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Edward Young-min Kwon

Prior to his career as a culinary chef, he had received an education at Gangneung Yeongdong College.


1796 in Australia

Edward Young's The Revenge and the comedy The Hotel are the first works performed.

A Vision of the Last Judgment

The figure of time appears in other works by Blake, including as the figure Los and in the illustration Blake made for Edward Young's Night Thoughts.

Charles-Pierre Colardeau

His most notable works are an imitation of Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope and a translation of the first two sections of Night-Thoughts by Edward Young.

In 1770, he put into verse the first two parts of Edward Young's Night-Thoughts, whose French translation had just been published.

Edward Young

In 1731 he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield.

In view of these promises Young refused two livings in the gift of All Souls' College, Oxford, and sacrificed a life annuity offered by the Marquess of Exeter if he would act as tutor to his son.

Selections from Night Thoughts was also set by New England Congregationalist composer William Billings in his Easter Anthem.

Johann Arnold Ebert

Most influential was his translation of Edward Young's Night-Thoughts, which elicited a rapturous enthusiasm for Young and a large number of imitations.

Sergey Glinka

Glinka's poems are spirited and patriotic; he wrote also several dramatic pieces, and translated Edward Young's Night Thoughts.

Sevenoaks by-election, 1935

The by-election was held due to the created baron kennet of the incumbent Conservative MP, Edward Young.


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