Date: 1792
"Curs'd lethargy of the soul! ... that chain'd my better judgement, cramp'd all my strength of mind--ruin'd all my prospects."
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1792
"I should be a pitiful bungler indeed, if I knew not yet how to tear a son from the heart of his father, were they link'd together with chains of iron."
preview | full record— Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747-1813); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1794
"My heart is in your chains, and I must follow."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1795
"How many hearts have you this moment in your chains?"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: April 17, 1795
"At Hymen's altar claim the chain / That twines two willing hearts in one!"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: January 13, 1796
"Forbear! there is a spirit within me, sunk tho' I am in misery and despair, that will not suffer you, tho' now a conqueror in your turn, and towering far above the wretched son of Hastings, to take this base advantage of your fortune, and drag a trembling victim to the altar only to riot in the ...
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1798
"Up, break thy fetters! Burst thy prison! My soul is free! My essence knows no chains."
preview | full record— Render, William (fl. 1790-1801); August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Valour holds a woman's soul in far securer chains than Science."
preview | full record— Dutton, Thomas (fl. 1770-1815); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"I saw in you the heroism of an ancient Roman .... your chains then dropped from your wrists, and fixed my heart."
preview | full record— Heron, Robert (c.1765-1807)
Date: 1799
"What are, to me, the ties of kindred?--I'll burst those trammels of affection, bonds of the soul:--I never knew their force: Nature denied me the sweet play of the heart, and all its persuasive eloquence."
preview | full record— Craven, Keppel (1779-1851); Schiller (1759-1805)