Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"In Honour's Name remember what you are, / Break from the Bondage of this feeble Passion, / And urge your way to Glory."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"I feel my Soul impatient of its Bondage, / Disdaining this unworthy, idle Passion, / And strugling to be free."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: From Thursd. Aug. 25. to Saturd. Aug. 27. 1709
"Forgive me, Madam, it is not that my Heart is weary of its Chain, but—This incoherent Stuff was answer'd by a tender Sigh, Why do you put your Wit to a week Woman?"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison
Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
"At length from Love's vile Slave'ry I am free, / And have regain'd my Ancient Liberty: / I've shook the Chains off which my Bondage wrought, / Am free as Air, and unconfin'd as Thought."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"Bring down the Piece,Urania, from Above, / And let my HONOUR and my LOVE / Dress it with Chains of Gold to hang upon my Heart."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709
"I know the Kindred-Mind. 'Tis she, 'tis she; / Among the Heav'nly Forms I see / The Kindred-Mind from fleshly Bondage free."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709
"'But oh the crowds of wretched souls / 'Fetter'd to minds of different moulds, / 'And chain'd t'eternal strife!'"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 1712
"Oh! Love has Fetters stronger far: / By Bolts of Steel are Limbs confined, / But cruel Love enchains the Mind."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: Friday, June 20, 1712
"Upon her Tongue did such smooth Mischief dwell, / And from her Lips such welcome Flatt'ry fell, / Th' unguarded Youth, in Silken Fetters ty'd, / Resign'd his Reason, and with Ease complied. / Thus does the Ox to his own Slaughter go, / And thus is senseless of th' impending Blow. / Thus flies th...
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1712
"She [the soul] does her Godlike Liberty secure: / Her Right and high Prerogative maintains, / Impatient of the Yoke, and scorns coercive Chains."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)