Date: 1743
"Of what Use is Reason then? Why, of the Use that a Window is to a Man in a Prison, to let him see the Horrors he is confined in; but lends him no Assistance to his Escape"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1745
"Off! Traitors! off! or my distracted Soul / Will burst indignant from this Jail of Nature! / To where she beckons yonder."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)