Date: 1670
"Thus, like a captive in an isle confined, / Man walks at large, a prisoner of the mind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1820
"Only a sense / Remains of them, like the omnipotence / Of music, when the inspired voice and lute / Languish, ere yet the responses are mute, / Which through the deep and labyrinthine soul, / Like echoes through long caverns, wind and roll."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)