Date: 1746, 1753
"Bid the face, red'ning, warm'd idea take, / Strait, the soul's wildfires all obstruction break: / Stung, by inflicted thought's imagin'd pain, / Hard heave the muscles, rolling eye-balls strain: / 'Twixt the clos'd teeth, indignantly, supprest, / Or, storm-like, loud, out pours th' unguarded bre...
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1748
Thought is "The fire that warms the poet's brain."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1749
Charles XII of Sweden has "A Frame of Adamant, a Soul of Fire, / No Dangers fright him, and no Labours tire."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: October 1750, 1752, 1791
"Still pouring forth executive desire, / As bright, as brisk, and lasting, as the vestal fire."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: April 1750, 1791
"Tho' gratitude were bless'd with all the pow'rs / Her bursting heart cou'd long for, tho' the swift, / The firey-wing'd imagination soar'd / Beyond ambition's wish--yet all were vain / To speak him as he is, who is INEFFABLE."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1751
"Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid / Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire."
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Know too, the joys of sense controul, / And clog the motions of the soul; / Forbid her pinions to aspire, / Damp and impair her native fire: / And sure as Sense (that tyrant!) reigns, / She holds the empress, Soul, in chains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1753
"Passion! the great man's guide, the poor man's blame; / The soldier's lawrel, and the sigher's flame"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: March 1756
"The thought-kindling light, / Thy prime production, darts upon my mind / Its vivifying beams, my heart illumines, / And fills my soul with gratitude and Thee."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: June, 1756
"Glow, glow, my soul, with pure seraphic fire."
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