Date: 1693
"Some Glances of a State that's past I find, / Take up the Corners of my thoughtful Mind, / As cover'd Embers when they're blown, create / A Flame, and represent my former State."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1693
"Musick alone inflames my drooping Mind; / Nay, she would mount her Wings, and fly away, / Not be confin'd to this dull Lump of Clay, / Did not the Charms of Musick most divine / Unite, and things so wide, so close combine."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1695
"His high Design was with his Heav'nly Light, / To chase away th' Impenetrable Night, / That cover'd this lost World, and re-inspire / Man's frozen Breast with fresh Celestial Fire"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1696
"Odsheart, she longs to see thee, and she is a curious fine Creature, ye Rogue! such Eyes! such Lips!--and such a Tongue between 'em! ah, the Tip of it will set a Mans Soul on fire!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"No! my very Soul's on fire, and nothing but the Villain's blood shall quench it."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"Hark! how the Warlike Notes inspire / In ev'ry Breast a glowing Fire."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"Long since alas! the airy Vision's fled, / And I with wandring Flames my Passion feed."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"O! for a Soul of fire, / To warm, and animate our common Cause, / And make a body of us."
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: 1697
The soul may be a "Modification or Power of the Body" so that it eventually ceases to act, "either perishing, as a Flame when the Fewel is spent; or returning to its Fountain, whatsoever it was"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"If a Flame be extinct, the same cannot return, but a new one may be made."
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)