Date: 1764
Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies, / That first excites desire and then supplies; / Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, / To fill the languid pause with finer joy; / Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, / Catch every nerve and vibrate through the frame."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1764
"In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire, / Till, buried in debauch, the bliss expire."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1766
"Fancy leads the fetter'd senses / Captives to her fond controul; / Merit may have rich pretences, / But 'tis Fancy fires the soul."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1768
"In saying this, I was making not so much La Fleur's eloge, as my own, having been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"The fire caught--and the whole city, like the heart of one man, open'd itself to Love."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)