Date: 1735-6
"He, too, the fire of fancy feeds intense, / With all the train of passions thence derived: / Not kindling quick, a noisy transient blaze, / But gradual, silent, lasting, and profound."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1737
"Whence Talbot's friendship glows to future times, / Intrepid, warm; of kindred tempers born; / Nursed, by experience, into slow esteem, / Calm confidence unbounded, love not blind, / And the sweet light from mingled minds disclosed, / From mingled chymic oils as bursts the fire."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1739
"Hourly within my Breast renew / This holy Flame, this heav'nly Fire; / And Day and Night be all my Care / To guard this sacred Treasure there."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"Fill our whole Souls with heav'nly Light, / Melt with Seraphick Fire."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1742
"AN Inward Baptism of Fire / Wherewith to be baptiz'd I have; / 'Tis all my longing Soul's Desire, / This, only This my soul can save."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1748
Thought is "The fire that warms the poet's brain."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1756
"Oh, God of Sleep! arise, and spread / Thy healing vapours round my head; / To thy friendly mansions take, / My soul that burns, / Till he returns, / For whom alone I wish to wake."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1756
"Alas! she hears me not; within her mind, / As warring flames are in the earth confin'd, / So is her rage and indignation pent."
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Date: 1756
"My brain's on fire, my blood begins to boil."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1764
Brave rage, a "grand master passion," may flame out for country
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)