Date: 1740
"In vain we forge coercive Chains, to bind / The strongest, noblest Passion of the Mind."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1742
"By Him instructed, even the meanest Prince / Shall rise to envy'd Greatness, shall advance / His dreaded Pow'r above Restraint and Fear, / And all the Rules, that in fantastick Chains / Inferior Minds confine."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1751
"And fettering on her Throne th' immortal Mind, / The Guidance of her Realm to Passions wild resign'd."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1756
"A lazy languor creeps along my veins; / Dull, and more dull my heavy eyelids grow, / And ev'ry sense accepts the leaden chains."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
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: 1760?
The Grace teaches "On the Subject when to be / Grave or gay, reserv'd or free: / The speaking Air, th' impassion'd Eye, / The living Soul of Symmetry; / And that soft Sympathy that binds / In magic Chains congenial Minds."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1760, 1850
Friendship is "The indissoluble tie that binds, / In equal chains, two sister minds."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1763
"Doth Virtue in thy bosom brighter glow, / Or from a Spring more pure doth Action flow? / Is not thy Soul bound with those very chains / Which shackle us, or is that SELF, which reigns / O'er Kings and Beggars, which in all we see / Most strong and sov'reign, only weak in Thee?"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1765
"Warm in the raptures of divine desire, / Burst the soft chain that curbs th'aspiring mind."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1766
"Fancy leads the fetter'd senses / Captives to her fond controul; / Merit may have rich pretences, / But 'tis Fancy fires the soul."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)