Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
The Nose
(1789)
“ Some power unseen forbids my lungs to breathe! What fire-clad meteors round me whizzing fly! I vitrify thy torrid zone beneath, Proboscis fierce! I am calcined! I die! Thus, like great Pliny, in Vesuvius’ fire, I perish in the blaze while I the blaze admire. ”
