Date: 1796
"Cold as ice themselves, they never could kindle in our breasts a spark of that zeal, which is necessary to a conflict with an adverse zeal; much less were they made to infuse into our minds that stubborn persevering spirit, which alone is capable of bearing up against those vicissitudes of fortu...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1798
"A thousand images of this sort were present to her burning imagination."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Ah! who can tell what pow'rs that mind possess'd, / What flames of lambent genius warm'd his breast!"
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Their hearts still glow'd with unextinguish'd flames."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"Elf, we'll promote the cause of human weal, / To yon dissecting sage these truths reveal. / Show him what use the Renal Capsule serves, / The liquid Fire that floats along the nerves; / Give him the office of the Spleen to find, / And let him see the Nidus of the mind."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)