Date: 1723
"Thou [God] only can'st the wond'rous Links descry / That Minds unbody'd to a Body tye."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"Thou know'st the downy Chains that softly bind / Our slumb'ring Sense, when waiting Objects find / No Avenue left open to the Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"Can Pains and Prisons Errour's Force controul, / And the chain'd Body loose the fetter'd Soul?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1702 [1735, 1779, 1779-80, 1790]
"O generous Sympathy, that binds / In Chains unseen the bravest Minds!"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1735
"Affection is the Chain of grateful Minds."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: November 9, 1779
"Thus, conscience freed from ev'ry clog, / Mahometans eat up the hog."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"He [the slave] feels his body's bondage in his mind, / Puts off his generous nature, and, to suit / His manners with his fate, puts on the brute."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"The pride of letter'd ignorance, that binds / In chains of error our accomplish'd minds, / That decks with all the splendour of the true, / A false religion, is unknown to you."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1789?
"Shorn of her beams and fetter'd by her thought, / The fallen nymph the caves of Sadness sought."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)