Your search for
Genre:
"Prose"
AND
Literary Period:
"Industrial Revolution"
,
"Eighteenth Century"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
,
"Early Modern"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
,
"Light"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1777
"If I may be allowed to change the allusion so soon, I would say, that the passions also resemble fires, which are friendly and beneficial when under proper direction, but if suffered to blaze without restraint, they carry devastation along with them, and, if totally extinguished, leave the benig...
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1782
"I read it carefully a second time--pondered--weighed--and submitted--whenever a spark of vanity seems to be glowing at my heart--I will read your letter--and what then?"
preview | full record— Sancho, Charles Ignatius (1729-1780)