self-kindled

To be condemned to work only for ourselves were the true hell, the self-kindled fire of everlasting torture!

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The glorious vault of heaven one day shall blaze with sudden self-kindled flame.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

He has never evinced a self-kindled creative aptitude; he has neither trained faculties of understanding nor an awakened mind, and possesses neither the energy nor ability to tread voluntarily the avenues of human knowledge, under the processes that require exact and steady application for his development.

The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion 1901

We behold spontaneous combustion, a fire self-kindled, but we do not see the activity of the particles of matter that preceded it or penetrate the secret of their mysterious affinities.

Time and Change John Burroughs 1879

In my text the points which are fixed on are that that Love in its nature is self-kindled -- 'not that we loved God, but that He loved us' -- and that it lays hold of, and casts out of the way that which, unremoved, would be a barrier between God and us -- viz., our sin: 'He hath sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.'

Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868

The wooden bridge also which he built six years before over the Rhine at Mentz was destroyed by fire, self-kindled.

Mediaeval Tales Henry Morley 1858

In one of its modifications, this fire, or fluid, self-kindled, permeating every thing as the soul or principle of life, is endowed with intelligence and powers of ceaseless activity.

The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

A new, self-kindled light -- and self-originated stimulus -- was required, to vivify the embers of suspended hope and action, in a mass paralyzed for the moment, but every way capable of effort.

The Two Great Retreats of History George Grote 1832

"It is but her jealousy that speaks," he said, "jealousy self-kindled, foiled and fruitless; for here I am, her master now whom she, would not have for her husband! while my beautiful Eve yet lives, hoping immortally!

Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864