Date: 1718
"Now, when unbridled Passions use to reign, / While vanquish'd Reason wears the Victor's Chain, / See Pleasure, fair and smiling as the Morn, / (Soft Silks her Limbs, gay Flow'rs her Head adorn) / Which with her Breath perfumes the ambient Air, / While sporting Zephyrs heave her golden Hair, / Mi...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"Should you presumptuous, quit your safer Ground, / And seek the utmost Lines, which Vertue bound, / And on the Frontier to engage the Foe, With Reason 's weak collected Forces go, / You'll soon those nice, ill-guarded Limits pass, / Throw down your Arms, and fond her Feet embrace, / In her soft ...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: January 16, 1719
"No, Madam, I say, not that I mean to use my Power, I tell you only what it is, my Heart has broke your Chain, I claim no Right over you."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1719
"Pensive and pale desponding / Albion sate, / And hourly waited her impending Fate; / 'Till George arose, in every Grace design'd, / To stop the Ruin, and defend Mankind, / To break the Fetters which our selves had wrought, / And free from Bondage the aspiring Thought."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1720
"He [Satan] manacles the Soul with adamantine Chains."
preview | full record— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)
Date: 1720
"You'll weep, I know you will; no Iron Chains / Confine thy Heart, thy Breast no Oak retains."
preview | full record— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)
Date: 1720
"Hypocrisie contracts, there is no Room within, / The Heart is fetter'd and enthral'd by Sin."
preview | full record— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)
Date: June, 1720
"Faint-hearted Wights, wha dully stood afar, / Tholling your Reason great Attempts to mar; / While the brave Dauntless, of sic Fetters free, / Jumpt headlong glorious in the golden Sea."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1721, 1722
"But you who have known how to break the chains which my mind itself had forged, how will you break those that tie my hands?"
preview | full record— Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Date: 1723
"Thou [God] only can'st the wond'rous Links descry / That Minds unbody'd to a Body tye."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)