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How is the Earth about her Axis turn’d? The Sun or it in Motion moſt concern’d? How is it faſten’d, if it does not move? How, if it does? And why not wildlier rove?

1714, Samuel Jones, Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasions, London: […] A[rthur] Bettesworth […], and E[dmund] Curll […], page 9

Even if at times a recollection of Sir Paris and Helen would make the wishes of his heart flame up more boldly and wildlier, yet he needed only a glance at the scarf and sword, and the stream of his inner life forthwith glided along, clear as a mirror, and cheerful.

1820, Frederic, Baron de la Motte Fouqué, translated by [Julius Hare], chapter 11, in Sintram and His Companions: A Romance. […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 101

At dead of night — a winter night — / Death bestrode the blast, / And conscious Arno’s high-swoln river / Swelled wildlier as he past; / On black and heavy vans he took his flight.

Evening Newspaper for the Year 1822

1822 February 11, John Taaffe, “Elegy on the Death of His Royal Highness Prince Clement, Duke of Saxony, etc. etc.”, in Theodor Hell [pseudonym; Karl Gottfried Theodor Winkler], [Johann] Friedrich Kind, editors, Abend-Zeitung auf das Jahr 1822 [Evening Newspaper for the Year 1822], number 36, Dresden: […] Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, stanza I, page 141, column 1

Spring soon will come / And bring their bloom / To bursting flowers;— / Many a silver beam / Crescent moons will stream / On dewy bowers. / Shall they light a sweeter, / Wildlier-happy, scene, / Than where, mute with passion, / On this breast you lean / Bathed with moonlight sheen,— / And I pray, / “Love me, May?”

1847 October, Ellesmere, “May”, in The American Review; a Whig Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Art and Science, volume VI, number IV, New York, N.Y.: George H[ooker] Colton, […]; London: Wiley and Putnam, […], page 405

The cheering was then renewed, and throats were opened wider than before, and palms met together in harder clap; and hats and Kerchiefs were wildlier flung about, and all things were made more extravagant; […]

1851 February 8, “[Dramatic Intelligence.] Haymarket.—Macready’s Last Performance.”, in The Musical World, volume XXVI, number 6, London: […] Myers and Co., […], page 88, column 1