Date: 1773
The mind may be "a never dying flame"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1775
"BLEST Bard! to whom the Muses, grateful, gave / That pipe which erft their deareft Spenser won, / As once they found thee, pensive and alone, / Strewing sweet flow'rs upon his hallow'd grave; / Then bad thy fancy glow with sacred fire, / And softest airs thy rural verse inspire."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1777, 1810
"While thus he ranges unconfined, / And glory fires his ardent mind."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1778
The "pure flame" of virtue is planted "by an unerring rule" and glows in the heart
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1780
"Inspir'd thus by the Priest's heroic charge, / seem'd to press to be the earliest victim; / Their souls on fire, were eager to depart / The earthly sphere, and seise on their immortal crowns."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"Oh, spare me then the horror of a sight / My fiery brain splits but to think on!"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"The heart which burns and wastes with hopeless ardors!"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1781
"When love is fetter'd, all is fire, / And tender passion soon decays; / Like those sweet birds which soon expire, / When we wou'd force their tuneful lays."
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1782
"In life's first season, when the fever's flame / Shrunk to deformity his shrivell'd frame, / And turn'd each fairer image in his brain / To blank confusion and her crazy train."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"Laughs not the spirit of poetic frame, / However slightly warm'd by Fancy's flame, / When grave Bossu by System's studied laws / The Grecian Bard's ideal picture draws"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)