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"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Religion of Author:
"Dissenter or Nonconformist"
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"Poem"
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Date: 1691
"By Law and Inclination doubly joyn'd, / Both acted by one Sympathetick Mind. / Whom Wedlock's Silken Chains as softly tye, / As that which when asunder snapt, we dye, / Which makes the Soul and Body's wondrous harmony."
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1706, 1709
"We are a little Kingdom; But the Man / That chains his Rebel Will to Reasons Throne, / Forms it a large one."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706
"But oh the crowds of wretched [married] souls / Fetter'd to minds of different moulds, / And chain'd t'eternal strife!"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)