Date: 1697
"Amazing Power of Guilt! one great Offence / Benumbs the Mind, and stupifys the Sense, / Binds fast reluctant Conscience with its Charms, / And of its Sting the Worm within disarms."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: w. 1694-1698, 1989
"Wn to my soul thou'st spoken peace / When from its bonds thou wilt my soul release / all my mourning then shall cease."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1699
"Our prepossessions and Affections bind / The Soul in Chains and lord it o'er the Mind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
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)