Date: September 30, 1769?
"To nature and the passions dead, / A brothel is his house and bed; / To fan the flame of warm desire, / And after wanton in the fire, / He thinks a labour; and his parts / Were not designed to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1789, 1794
"In every cry of every Man / In every Infants cry of fear / In every voice; in every ban / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
A fiend may set "reason up for judge / Of our most holy Mystery"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
" The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd / The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"In every voice: in every ban, / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 2000
"Emotions, atavisms, would be set aside, while reason -- the nabob of all faculties -- went about its work."
preview | full record— Amis, Martin (b. 1949)