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William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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noun

One who, or that which, accelerates.

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inflamed

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ɪnˈfleɪmd/Used In Literature ↓

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

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Poetry examples for inflamed

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

As these last quotations are not only specimens of dictiofi a,i\d sentiment^

but of patsions inflamed into poetic enthusiasm; I shall refer the reader to

some other parallels of passiotis and characters that greatly resemble, and

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indulged it; till, as he confessed to Dr. Burnet, he was for five years

together continually drunk, or so much inflamed by frequent ebriety, as

in no interval to be master of himself.

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