Date: 1753
"He found me happiest of the Happy. Fortune and Honour crown'd me; and Love and Peace liv'd in my Heart. One Spark of Folly lurk'd there; That too he found; and by deceitful Breath blew it to Flames that have consum'd me."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1753
"A Furnace rages in this Heart--I have been too hasty."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1755
"Thy Words have shot like Lightning through my Frame; / And all my Soul's on Fire!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Thy Soul will kindle, / And Passion mount in Flames that will consume thee."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Deep in his Soul the hidden Fire shall glow, / And his Breast labour with the great Revenge!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1756
"Oh, God of Sleep! arise, and spread / Thy healing vapours round my head; / To thy friendly mansions take, / My soul that burns, / Till he returns, / For whom alone I wish to wake."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1756
"Alas! she hears me not; within her mind, / As warring flames are in the earth confin'd, / So is her rage and indignation pent."
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Date: 1756
"My brain's on fire, my blood begins to boil."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Would thou wert not / Compos'd of grief and tenderness alone, / But had'st a spark of other passions in thee, / Pride, anger, vanity, the strong desire / Of admiration, dear to woman kind;/ These might contend with, and allay thy grief, / As meeting tides and currents smooth our firth."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Then my bosom's flame / Oft, as blown back by the rude breath of fear, / Return'd, and with redoubled ardour blaz'd."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)