Date: 1746, 1753
"Bid the face, red'ning, warm'd idea take, / Strait, the soul's wildfires all obstruction break: / Stung, by inflicted thought's imagin'd pain, / Hard heave the muscles, rolling eye-balls strain: / 'Twixt the clos'd teeth, indignantly, supprest, / Or, storm-like, loud, out pours th' unguarded bre...
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1746, 1753
"Nor sea, nor life, eternal Tempest sweeps, / Hush'd calms succeed it, and the thunder sleeps: / Such, the soft, silent tide, that floods the mind, / To mov'd Compassion's pain-touch'd warmth, inclin'd."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1746, 1753
"As in pale churchyards, gleam'd by silent night, / Shou'd some cross'd spectre shade the moon's dim light, / Shudd'ry, the back'ning blood, revolving swift, / Cloggs the press'd heart--stretch'd fibres fail to lift: / Lost, in doubt's hard'ning frost--stopt motion lies, / While sense climbs, gra...
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1746, 1753
Love "'Tis like soft air, through which admitted light / Peoples pleas'd fancy, and lends shape to sight: / Yet, like that air, disturb'd, man's quiet breaks, / Tempests his reason, and his triumph shakes."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1746
"Like the fierce rage of an impetuous win / Burst forth the passions" of a raving mind
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746
"As gentle winds inflate the spreading sails," "so wealth and glory swell the Pride"
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Date: 1746
"Man, in a storm of passions daily whirl'd, / Lives but the jest, and riddle of the world."
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Date: 1746, 1749
"For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love, / And while tempestuous these Emotions roll, / And float with blind Disorder in the Soul."
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1747, 1811
"'Yes, if his soul to reason's rule resign'd, / 'And heaven's own views fair-opening on his mind,/ 'Caught from bright nature's flame the living ray, / 'Through passion's cloud pour'd in resistless day; / 'And taught mankind in reas'ning Pride's despite, / 'That God is wise, and all that is righ...
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1748
The sorrowing soul is tempestuous
preview | full record— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)