Date: 1761
"Here o'er this holy flame. / I join your hands, an emblem of your hearts: / Henceforth be one."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1775
An "unquenchable" spark may glow within the breast and blaze into freedom
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1777
"Her mind's a burning fire, / Where sudden thoughts, like wreaths of smoak arise, / And, parting from the flame, disperse in air."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1779
"Ambition! thou whose hallow'd flame can live / Only in minds refin'd from the gross elements / Of which the herd of human kind are made!"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1779
"If one spark of virtue / Yet hovers in his mind--Oh, grant me, Heaven! / To kindle it afresh, and be the flame immortal!"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1788
"Within the heart which love illumes, / And blesses with his sacred rays, / If meaner passion e'er presumes, / It fades before the hallow'd blaze."
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1789, 1797
"Each motive base it [the soul] nobly spurns, / And bright with purest passion burns."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George Monck (1763-1793)
Date: April 20, 1796
"Ere yet we were, / Our finer tones of mind some guardian spirit / Touch'd into harmony; and, when we met, / Th' according strings struck forth a sound so sweet, / That heav'n itself might listen! love! ev'n love, / That brand of discord, burns within our bosoms, / Pale—cold—before the steady fla...
preview | full record— Lee, Sophia (bap. 1750, d. 1824)