Date: 1724
"My flame revives!--each fit comes stronger on me! / Varying convulsions torture every nerve! / I love! I rage!--hate--fear--and love again! / And burn, and die with a whole war of passions!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"Ha!--what a shoot was there!--my blood boils in me! / Flames wind about my breast--my brain burns red, / And my eyes swim in a blue sea of sulphur!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1726, 1753
"As fire, by nature, climbs direct, and bright, / And beams, in spotless rays, a shining light; / But if some gross obstruction stops its way, / Smokes in low curls, and scents the sullied day: / So love, itself, untainted, and refin'd, / Borrows a tincture, from the colour'd mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1726
"My breast, O WALPOLE, glows with grateful fire / The streams of Royal bounty, turn'd by Thee, / Refresh the dry domains of poesy."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Excited, thus, the smother'd fire, at length, / Bursts into blaze, and burns, with open strength: / That image, which, before, but sooth'd the mind, / Now lords it there, and rages, unconfined"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1726, 1753
"But I have err'd; and, with delirious aim, / Would picture motion, and imprison flame. / He, who can light'ning's flash, to colours, bind, / May paint love's influence, on the burning mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1728
Say, "How Fancy every Shape puts on? / How kindling Sparks her Form compose, / And whence the constant-shining Train, / That Mem'ry, or Experience shows?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1732
"Thus from your eyes united beams conspire, / To kindle in our souls a pleasing fire;"
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1733
"[S]prightly Wit, that all admire," may be "an unlicens'd lawless Fire"
preview | full record— Chandler, Mary (1687-1745)
Date: 1735, 1745
"And Fancy's Fire with Judgment's Temper cools."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)