Date: w. 1796, 1811
"Hence the same Charity, heart-cheering guest, / That burnt, with fervent flame, in Dryden's breast, / Inspirits mine"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1812
Fancy may be kindled
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1813
In female hearts "genuine virtue" may glow and not that "stern passion, that unlovely flame, / which sear'd the bosom of the Spartan dame"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1813
British nymphs even while "their bosoms own the tender fire, / Their generous minds can check each fond desire"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1816
"Yet must I think less wildly:--I have thought / Too long and darkly, till my brain became, / In its own eddy boiling and o'erwrought, / A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1816
"[Y]ears steal / Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1816
"[T]here is a fire / And motion of the Soul which will not dwell / In its own narrow being, but aspire / Beyond the fitting medium of desire; / And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1817
Thoughts may "nourish up the flame / Within [the] breast"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: August 1817
"Whenever any object takes such a hold on the mind as to make us dwell upon it, and brood over it, melting the heart in love, or kindling it to a sentiment of admiration;--whenever a movement of imagination or passion is impressed on the mind, by which it seeks to prolong and repeat the emotion, ...
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)