Date: 1777, 1810
"Here soars the poet, all, impassioned mind, / And leaves his earthly clog behind."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1778
"A thirst for knowledge, which can never be gratified, would not have been implanted; a mind which was to be chained to the earth, would never have been bent on the skies"
preview | full record— Caulfield (fl. 1778)
Date: 1778
"I should have hoped that a man of his knowledge--and who has studied in the manner he [Dr. Blair] must have done--(being a professor of the Belles Lettres,) might have emancipated his mind from the shackles of system."
preview | full record— Caulfield (fl. 1778)
Date: 1778
"But, as an author of great fame / (I can't just recollect his name) / Has somewhere said, who seeks to bind / By force, or fraud, a woman's mind, / With locks, and bolts, and bars, and chains, / But gets his labour for his pains."
preview | full record— Moore, Sir John Henry (1756-1780)
Date: 1778
"Why, my sweet one, you are all power, all a goddess; and you hold my heart enslaved in the chains of immortal love."
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: November 9, 1779
"Thus, conscience freed from ev'ry clog, / Mahometans eat up the hog."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1779-1780, 1781
"The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1780
"Generous Britain scorns to bind, / In servile chains, the freeborn mind."
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1781
"My head and ears confus'd, I find / One cannot here relax the Mind, / In vain she strives to slip her chains, / Law, Law, through all these regions reigns; / So back to Chambers I return, / More Patience, and more Law, to learn."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: February 24, 1777; 1781
"She is the deceitful sorceress who now holds your husband's heart in bondage."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)