"We live, alas! where the bright god of day, / Full from the zenith whirls his torrid ray: / Beneath the rage of his consuming fires, / All fancy melts, all eloquence expires."
An Ode [from Edward Long's The History of Jamaica]
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1774).<br>
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<u>The History of Jamaica. or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of That Island: With Reflections on Its Situation, Settlements, Inhabitants.</u> 3 vols. (London : printed for T. Lowndes, 1774). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T142858">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Vincent Carretta's <u>Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century</u>. Expanded ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004): 72-4.