Date: 1697
"Amazing Power of Guilt! one great Offence / Benumbs the Mind, and stupifys the Sense, / Binds fast reluctant Conscience with its Charms, / And of its Sting the Worm within disarms."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1700
"No shackling Rhyme chain'd the free Poets mind; / Majestick was his Style, and unconfin'd."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)