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)
Date: 1794
"I would not shackle you with fetters of suspicion; I would have you governed by justice and reason."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
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)