Date: 1688
"I will be deaf and blind, and guard my Heart with Walls of Ice, and make you know, that when the Flames of true Devotion are kindled in a Heart, it puts out all other Fires; which are as ineffectual, as Candles lighted in the Face of the Sun."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1788
"A ray of fire seemed to flash across the imagination of Delamere, and to inflame all his hopes."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)