Date: 1794
"I would not shackle you with fetters of suspicion; I would have you governed by justice and reason."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1795
"How many hearts have you this moment in your chains?"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: April 17, 1795
"At Hymen's altar claim the chain / That twines two willing hearts in one!"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1796
"Nay, if, like hers, my heart were iron-bound, / My warmth would melt the fetters to the ground"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"The chains of care fall off my pensive mind, / When through the winds your spirit hails me."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"Ah! fly the scene; secure that guilt can find / In brutal force no fetter for the mind!"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796, 1806
"Ambition!--not that emulative zeal Which wings the tow'ring souls of godlike men! / But bold, oppressive, self-created pow'r, / That, trampling o'er the barrier of the laws, / And scattering wide the tender shoots of pity, / Strikes at the root of reason, and confines / Nature itself in bondage!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1796
"Camilla dissented not from the opinion; but the doctrine to which it was easy to agree, it was difficult to put in practice; and her ardent mind believed itself fettered for ever, and for ever unhappy."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"Should he now, then, make her deem him exacting, and tenacious of prerogative? no; it might shackle the freedom of her mind in their future intercourse."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"The speeches of the unsuspicious Eugenia, that a moment before would have past unheeded, now regaled her renovated fancy with a thousand amusing images, which so vigorously struggled against her sadness and her terrors, that they were soon nearly driven from the field by their sportive assailant...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)