Date: 1731
"Here Arlington, thy mighty Mind disdains / Inferior Earth, and breaks its servile Chains, / Aloft on Contemplations Wings you rise, / Scorn all below and mingle with the Skies."
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Date: 1732
"Bind up bold Thought, in Slumber's silky Chain, / Since all we act, and all we know, is vain."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1735
"Affection is the Chain of grateful Minds."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1735-6
"Snatch'd by these wonders to that world where thought / Unfetter'd ranges, Fancy's magic hand / Led me anew o'er all the solemn scene, / Still in the mind's pure eye more solemn dress'd."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"The Persian fetters, that inthrall'd the mind, / Were turn'd to formal and apparent chains."
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Date: 1735-6
"Britons! be firm!--nor let corruption sly / Twine round your heart indissoluble chains!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"The steel of Brutus burst the grosser bonds / By Cæsar cast o'er Rome; but still remain'd / The soft enchanting fetters of the mind, / And other Cæsars rose."
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Date: 1738
"Happy, he who can unbind / The Chains that clog the fetter'd Mind!"
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1739
"Long my imprison'd spirit lay, / Fast bound in sin and nature's night: / Thine eye diffused a quickening ray; / I woke; the dungeon flamed with light; / My chains fell off, my heart was free, / I rose, went forth, and follow'd Thee."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1739
"To usher forth the Virtues of the Mind! / From Nature's Chain, from Earthly Dross set free, / One only Appetite remained in Thee."
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