Date: 1770
"But this faculty [Reason] has been much perverted, often to vile, and often to insignificant purposes; sometimes chained like a slave or malefactor, and sometimes soaring in forbidden and unknown regions."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1794
"How thoughts to thoughts are link'd with viewless chains, / Tribes leading tribes, and trains pursuing trains."
preview | full record— Bilsborrow, Dewhurst (fl. 1794)