Date: February, 1821
"Standard productions of this kind are links in the chain of our conscious being. They bind together the different scattered divisions of our personal identity."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: 1852
"Ah! well for us, if even we, / Even for a moment, can get free / Our heart, and have our lips unchain'd; / For that which seals them hath been deep-ordain'd!"
preview | full record— Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
Date: 1868
"From sin and Satan's iron chain! / Our souls Thou offerest to release."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1868
"O make me free within / From pride, and passion's chain, / My spirit by Thy bonds release, / And bid me go in perfect peace."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1869
"But, in that case, all that has been done in the modern world to relax the chain on the minds of women, has been a mistake."
preview | full record— Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)
Date: 1872
"At Shakespear's happy birth / With fire ethereal Jove his soul endow'd, / Then bade him spurn the narrow bounds of earth, / And sordid wishes of the grov'ling crowd, / That chain the free-born mind."
preview | full record— Laurence, French (1757-1809)
Date: 1928
"Or what is Hair but threads of gold / That Lovers Hearts in fetters hold?"
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)