Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"I burn and am consumed with hopeless Love; those Beams in whose soft temperate warmth I wanton'd heretofore, now flash destruction to my Soul, my Treacherous greedy Eyes have suck'd the glaring Light, they have united all its Rays, and, like a burning-Glass, Convey'd the pointed Meteor to-my Hea...
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
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: 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)