Date: 1752
"Perhaps there may be such; but if there are, those Hearts may be compared, I believe, to Damps, in which it is more difficult to keep Fire alive than to prevent its blazing: In mine, it was placed in the Midst of combustible Matter."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1753
One may "blow the coals of jealousy"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1753
"Passion! the great man's guide, the poor man's blame; / The soldier's lawrel, and the sigher's flame"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"He found me happiest of the Happy. Fortune and Honour crown'd me; and Love and Peace liv'd in my Heart. One Spark of Folly lurk'd there; That too he found; and by deceitful Breath blew it to Flames that have consum'd me."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1753
"A Furnace rages in this Heart--I have been too hasty."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1754
"Souls of tinder, discretions of flimsy gauze, that conceal not their folly--One day they will think as I do; and perhaps before they have daughters who will convince them of the truth of my assertion"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: Saturday, Aug. 3, 1754; 1756
"As for Instance, when the Poet says of Dido, that she is devoured by an inward Flame."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1755
Affections may seem benumbed or may take take fire
preview | full record— Hooker [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"The imperfect sense of some examples I lamented, but could not remedy, and hope they will be compensated by innumerable passages selected with propriety, and preserved with exactness; some shining with sparks of imagination, and some replete with treasures of wisdom."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1755
"Thy Words have shot like Lightning through my Frame; / And all my Soul's on Fire!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)