Date: 1772, 1810
"His vital spark her earthly cell forsook, / And into air her fleeting progress took."
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1773
"Yet of etherial temper are their souls, / And in their veins the tide of honour rolls; / And valour kindles there the hero's flame, / Contempt of death, and thirst of martial flame. / And pity melts the sympathizing breast, / Ah! fatal virtue!—for the brave distrest."
preview | full record— Day, Thomas (1748-1789)
Date: 1777, 1810
"While thus he ranges unconfined, / And glory fires his ardent mind."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
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)
Date: 1782
"The noble thought, that fir'd a Grecian soul, / Keeps o'er a British mind its firm control."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"Fanatic frenzy" is "the false fire of an o'erheated mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
The "love of Nature's works" "is a flame that dies not even there / Where nothing feeds it"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"Behold the man a firmer bond requires, / For him the passion kindles all its fires."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)