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: 1773
"Now deep retired in Frome's enchanting vale, / She pours her tuneful sorrows on the gale; / Without one fond reserve the world disclaims, / And gives up all her soul to heavenly flames."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
The mind may be "a never dying flame"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1775
"BLEST Bard! to whom the Muses, grateful, gave / That pipe which erft their deareft Spenser won, / As once they found thee, pensive and alone, / Strewing sweet flow'rs upon his hallow'd grave; / Then bad thy fancy glow with sacred fire, / And softest airs thy rural verse inspire."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1777, 1810
"While thus he ranges unconfined, / And glory fires his ardent mind."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1777
"At present in my brain there floats / A thousand parti-colored motes; / From which, if time would but permit, / I might sift some sparks of wit."
preview | full record— Savage, Mary (fl. 1763-1777)
Date: 1778
The "pure flame" of virtue is planted "by an unerring rule" and glows in the heart
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
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)