Date: 1730
Love is a "strange unruly Something in the Soul" that "like a Fire once kindled in a Mine, / Can ne'er be thoroughly quench'd"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
"Take heed then, heedless Swains, how you come nigh her, / For if she pop her Head but out of Windows, / Your Hearts, as sure as Fate, are burnt to Cinders."
preview | full record— Mottley, John (1692-1750)
Date: June 1, 1732
"Oh! I am all on Fire, thou lovely Wench, / Torrents of Joy my burning Soul must quench, / Reiterated Joys!"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
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: 1755
"Thy Words have shot like Lightning through my Frame; / And all my Soul's on Fire!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Thy Soul will kindle, / And Passion mount in Flames that will consume thee."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Deep in his Soul the hidden Fire shall glow, / And his Breast labour with the great Revenge!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1760, 1803
"To farther conquests still my soul aspires, / And all my bosom glows with martial fires"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1761
"No, thou art all that's elegant and fair, / And perfect upon earth; and Caius happy / Beyond whatever gratitude express'd, / Or fancy drew, when glowing raptures catch / The poet's breast, and set the soul on fire."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)