Template:RQ:Young Night-Thoughts/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from Edward Young's work The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality (1st edition, 1742–1745, 9 volumes; and 1750 edition). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

• 1st edition (1742–1745):
  • Night the First, and Night the Second (1742) [currently unavailable online].
  • Night the Third (1742; archived at the Internet Archive).
  • Night the Fourth (1743; archived at the Internet Archive).
  • Night the Fifth (1743).
  • Night the Sixth (1744).
  • Night the Seventh (1744; archived at the Internet Archive).
  • Night the Eighth, and Night the Ninth (1745) [currently unavailable online].
• 1750 edition – includes A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job (1719).

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |night= – mandatory in some cases: the work is divided into nine parts called "nights". If quoting from the 1st edition of the work, specify the part quoted from in Arabic numerals, like this: |night=4.
• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

You must specify this information to have the template determine, in the 1750 edition, the part of the work (Night the First – Night the Ninth) quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.

• |line= or |lines= – the line number(s) quoted from. These do not appear in the editions of the work mentioned above, but may be obtained from other versions of the work.
• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage quoted from the work.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

1st edition (1742–1745)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Young Night-Thoughts|night=6|page=19|passage=And laugh at this fantaſtic Mummery, / This antic Prelude of groteſque Events, / VVhere Dvvarfs are often '''ſtilted''', and betray / A Littleneſs of ſoul by VVorlds o'er-run, / And Nations laid in blood.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Young Night-Thoughts|night=6|19|And laugh at this fantaſtic Mummery, / This antic Prelude of groteſque Events, / VVhere Dvvarfs are often '''ſtilted''', and betray / A Littleneſs of ſoul by VVorlds o'er-run, / And Nations laid in blood.}}
• Result:
  • 1744, [Edward Young], “Night the Sixth. The Infidel Reclaim’d. In Two Parts. Containing, the Nature, Proof, and Importance of Immortality. Part the First. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 19:

    And laugh at this fantaſtic Mummery, / This antic Prelude of groteſque Events, / VVhere Dvvarfs are often ſtilted, and betray / A Littleneſs of ſoul by VVorlds o'er-run, / And Nations laid in blood.

1750 edition

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Young Night-Thoughts|page=44|passage=So ſung {{smallcaps|Philander}}, as his Friend vvent round / In the rich ''Ichor'', in the gen'rous Blood / Of [[w:Dionysus|{{smallcaps|Bacchus}}]], purple God of joyous VVit, / A Brovv '''ſolute''', and ever-laughing Eye.}}
• Result:
  • 1742, [Edward Young], “Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 44:

    So ſung Philander, as his Friend vvent round / In the rich Ichor, in the gen'rous Blood / Of Bacchus, purple God of joyous VVit, / A Brovv ſolute, and ever-laughing Eye.