Date: 1726
"My breast, O WALPOLE, glows with grateful fire / The streams of Royal bounty, turn'd by Thee, / Refresh the dry domains of poesy."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Excited, thus, the smother'd fire, at length, / Bursts into blaze, and burns, with open strength: / That image, which, before, but sooth'd the mind, / Now lords it there, and rages, unconfined"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1726, 1753
"But I have err'd; and, with delirious aim, / Would picture motion, and imprison flame. / He, who can light'ning's flash, to colours, bind, / May paint love's influence, on the burning mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1728
Say, "How Fancy every Shape puts on? / How kindling Sparks her Form compose, / And whence the constant-shining Train, / That Mem'ry, or Experience shows?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1732
"Thus from your eyes united beams conspire, / To kindle in our souls a pleasing fire;"
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1733
"[S]prightly Wit, that all admire," may be "an unlicens'd lawless Fire"
preview | full record— Chandler, Mary (1687-1745)
Date: 1735, 1745
"And Fancy's Fire with Judgment's Temper cools."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1735, 1763
"Does mean self-love contract each social aim? / Here publick transports shall thy soul inflame."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1736
"THOU, matur'd by glad Hesperian Suns, / Tobacco, Fountain pure of limpid Truth, / That looks the very Soul; whence pouring Thought / Swarms all the Mind; absorpt is yellow Care, / And at each Puff Imagination burns."
preview | full record— Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1705-1760)
Date: 1739
"Those gifts for nobler purposes assign'd, / To raise the thoughts, and moralize the mind; / The chaste delights of virtues to inspire, / And warm the bosom with seraphic fire; / Sublime the passions, lend devotion wings, / And celebrate the first great cause of things."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)