Date: 1744
"What slave, unbless'd, who from to-morrow's dawn / Expects an empire? He forgets his chain, / And, throned in thought, his absent sceptre waves."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Yet not by all / Those lying forms which fancy in the brain / Engenders, are the kindling passions driven, / To guilty deeds; nor reason bound in chains, / That vice alone may lord it: oft adorn'd / With solemn pageants, folly mounts the throne, / And plays her idiot-anticks, like a queen. / A t...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Has thy constant heart refus'd / The silken fetters of delicious ease?"
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"Though various are the tempers of mankind, / Pleasure's gay family hold all in chains."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"Go, fix some weighty truth; / Chain down some passion; do some generous good; / Teach Ignorance to see, or Grief to smile; / Correct thy friend; befriend thy greatest foe; / Or, with warm heart, and confidence Divine, / Spring up, and lay strong hold on Him who made thee."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1745
"His appetite wears Reason's golden chain, / And finds in due restraint its luxury."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1751
"And fettering on her Throne th' immortal Mind, / The Guidance of her Realm to Passions wild resign'd."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Know too, the joys of sense controul, / And clog the motions of the soul; / Forbid her pinions to aspire, / Damp and impair her native fire: / And sure as Sense (that tyrant!) reigns, / She holds the empress, Soul, in chains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Inglorious bondage to the mind, / Heaven-born, sublime, and unconfin'd!"
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1753
"Sorrow renounces latitude of range: / Dwells in confinement's cave; where thought sits chain'd / Muses are shunn'd: and horror's winking lamp."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)