Date: 1692
"Send it? Yes, with all the Passion, the Ferment, the Eagerness, the Salt, the Flame, the Fire of my Soul, I'll send it."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1692
"Nature when first she form'd our Minds took care, / To place the softest, tenderest Passions there. / Hence 'tis, our Thoughts like Tinder, apt to fire, / Are often caught with loving kind Desire."
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1695
"His high Design was with his Heav'nly Light, / To chase away th' Impenetrable Night, / That cover'd this lost World, and re-inspire / Man's frozen Breast with fresh Celestial Fire"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1696
"Ambition only fired my Youth, and led me on to Greatness; but now a gentler Flame hath filled my Heart, yet more tormenting."
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1696
"At these difficulties Alphonsus abandons himself to Despair; threatens to be rid of life, since no fairer Prospect was in view to ease his Heart of Love's tormenting Fires."
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1696
"My longing looks devour your Charms; my Sighs redouble at your sight; and every Motion shows the Fires of my Soul!"
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1696
"Odsheart, she longs to see thee, and she is a curious fine Creature, ye Rogue! such Eyes! such Lips!--and such a Tongue between 'em! ah, the Tip of it will set a Mans Soul on fire!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"No! my very Soul's on fire, and nothing but the Villain's blood shall quench it."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"Hark! how the Warlike Notes inspire / In ev'ry Breast a glowing Fire."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"Long since alas! the airy Vision's fled, / And I with wandring Flames my Passion feed."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)