Date: 1779
"If one spark of virtue / Yet hovers in his mind--Oh, grant me, Heaven! / To kindle it afresh, and be the flame immortal!"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"Inspir'd thus by the Priest's heroic charge, / seem'd to press to be the earliest victim; / Their souls on fire, were eager to depart / The earthly sphere, and seise on their immortal crowns."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"Oh, spare me then the horror of a sight / My fiery brain splits but to think on!"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1780
"The heart which burns and wastes with hopeless ardors!"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1777, 1780
"The notice and observation of strangers, and the affection of individuals, together with that inward consciousness that always attends superiour qualities, would sometimes kindle the flames of ambition in Edmund's heart; but he checked them presently by reflecting upon his low birth and dependan...
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
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
"My brain is on fire!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
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)