Date: 1754
"I found I had given a loose to a passion which had no other end but to make me frantic, and consequently miserable; and yet insupportable as my life was, and altho' the alteration of Eustace had taken from me the gratification of this whirlwind of passion, yet was I caught in such a snare...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
One may take pains to conquer "sudden gusts of passion"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1756
"What a rough war contending Passion keeps! / Now the storm's up; now, hah! by Heav'n he weeps."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1790
"But let me not thus pond'ring, gaping, stand-- / But, lo, I am not at my own command: / Bed, bosom, kiss, embraces, storm my brains, / And, lawless tyrants, bind my will in chains."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1838
"Charm'd by her voice, th' harmonious sounds invade / His clouded mind, and for a time persuade:"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)