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Date: 1759
"If I am accidentally left alone for a few hours, said he, my inveterate persuasion rushes upon my soul, and my thoughts are chained down by some irresistible violence, but they are soon disentangled by the prince's conversation, and instantaneously released at the entrance of Pekuah."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: December 6, 1765
"Then fly from Shape to Shape, / Yet hope not to escape, / My Chains enclose your Heart."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1804
"Reason, blest Goddess! who disdains / Religion's Curbs, and mental Chains."
preview | full record— Collins, John [called Brush Collins] (1742-1808)
