Date: 1789?
"Shorn of her beams and fetter'd by her thought, / The fallen nymph the caves of Sadness sought."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"Its anodyne powers [Miss George's singing] the sick'ning make cheery, / And tears off the chain from the mind of the weary."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1792
"Now that stern habit throws without controul / Her chain of adamant around thy soul / May not th' unhappy Abelard disclose / (To her who pities most) his train of woes?"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1801
"My soul her bondage ill endures; / I pant for liberty like yours."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1803
"The polish'd links that form the social chain, / For ages still to ages may remain / Nor snapt by rage, nor undermin'd by art, / If well the rivets join in every part; / But if those links that would the peasant bind, / Gall his chaf'd body, and corrode his mind, / The poor man's iron, and the r...
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
"Urizen lay in darkness & solitude, in chains of the mind lock'd up."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1807-8
"Much it behoves us to compute the strength / Of him, whose ruin we would work, of him, / Who vaunts himself the legate of Jehovah, / And by that title keeps our souls in thrall / And bondage worse than what our limbs endur'd / Under the yoke of Pharaoh."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1810
"Years pass away--let us suppose them past, / Th' accomplish'd nymph for freedom looks at last; / All hardships over, which a school contains, / The spirit's bondage and the body's pains; / Where teachers make the heartless, trembling set / Of pupils suffer for their own regret."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1810
"Kindness can woo the Lion from his den, / A moral teaching to the sons of men; / His mighty heart in silken bonds can draw, / And bend his nature to sweet Pity's law."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)