Date: 1681
"This [sadness] fetters all our Senses, pulleth down / Heav'ns Image, Reason from her rightful Throne / And in her room, by Fancies pow'rful Charm, / Sets up a feigned Ill to work our Harm."
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1720
"You'll weep, I know you will; no Iron Chains / Confine thy Heart, thy Breast no Oak retains."
preview | full record— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)
Date: 1760
"There is a certain pleasing force that binds, / Faster than chains do slaves, two willing minds."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: w. 1789, 1804
"Can Mammon's votaries vainly hope to bind, / In shining shackles, his immortal Mind?"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)