Date: 1724
"All my fierce passions rise with that reflection, / Inward they rage--a winding train takes fire, / The flashy blaze runs swift thro' ev'ry vein, / And my brain splits with agony!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"When honour lights up love, / Th' illumin'd soul burns lambent with a flame, / Pure as the hallow'd altars--Such my hope!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"My flame revives!--each fit comes stronger on me! / Varying convulsions torture every nerve! / I love! I rage!--hate--fear--and love again! / And burn, and die with a whole war of passions!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"Ha!--what a shoot was there!--my blood boils in me! / Flames wind about my breast--my brain burns red, / And my eyes swim in a blue sea of sulphur!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1725-6
"Will martial flames for ever fire thy mind, / And never, never be to Heav'n resign'd?"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"The Similies are likewise generally longer in the Iliad than the Odyssey, and less resemblance between the thing illustrated, and the illustration; the reason is, in the Iliad the similitudes are introduced to illustrate some great and noble object, and therefore the Poet pr...
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"The thinking mind, my soul to vengeance fires."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1726, 1753
"As fire, by nature, climbs direct, and bright, / And beams, in spotless rays, a shining light; / But if some gross obstruction stops its way, / Smokes in low curls, and scents the sullied day: / So love, itself, untainted, and refin'd, / Borrows a tincture, from the colour'd mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1726
"My breast, O WALPOLE, glows with grateful fire / The streams of Royal bounty, turn'd by Thee, / Refresh the dry domains of poesy."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1726
"NOW, giddy Youth, whom headlong Passions fire, / Rouse the wild Game, and stain the guiltless Grove, / With Violence, and Death; yet call it Sport."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)