Date: 1700
"No shackling Rhyme chain'd the free Poets mind; / Majestick was his Style, and unconfin'd."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1700
"What's all the noisy Jargon of the Schools, / But idle Nonsense of laborious Fools, / Who fetter Reason with perplexing Rules."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1700
"We seldome use our Liberty aright, / Nor Judge of Things by Universal Light; / Our Prepossessions and Affections bind / The Soul in Chains, and Lord it o're the Mind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
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)
Date: 1707, 1710
"No shackling Rhyme chain'd the free Poet's mind, / Majestick was His Style, and unconfin'd."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1712
"She [the soul] does her Godlike Liberty secure: / Her Right and high Prerogative maintains, / Impatient of the Yoke, and scorns coercive Chains."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Love in these Labyrinths his Slaves detains, / And mighty Hearts are held in slender Chains."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)