Date: 1700
"E'er since which time, unhappy Lovers see, / Their Passion ne'er can be from Tempests free / It Ebbs and Flows, unfixt, not long the same, / A rowling Ocean of tumultuous Flame."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1704
"Mean while Medea, seiz'd with fierce Desire, / By Reason strives to quench the raging Fire; / But strives in vain!"
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)
Date: 1704
"Wretch, from thy Virgin-Breast this Flame expel, / And soon--Oh cou'd I, all wou'd then be well!"
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)
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)