In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.

What rage for fame attends both great and small!

Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

John Wolcot (1738-1819): To the Royal Academicians.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,

Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve (1670-1729): The Mourning Bride. Act iii. Sc. 8.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle

Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime;

Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,

Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Stanza 1.

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page,

Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll;

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,

And froze the genial current of the soul.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 13.

Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream

My great example, as it is my theme!

Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull;

Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.

Sir John Denham (1615-1668): Cooper's Hill. Line 189.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Alexander's Feast. Line 160.