Date: June, 1720
"Faint-hearted Wights, wha dully stood afar, / Tholling your Reason great Attempts to mar; / While the brave Dauntless, of sic Fetters free, / Jumpt headlong glorious in the golden Sea."
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Date: 1727
"Inhaling spirit; from the unfetter'd mind, / By thee sublimed, down to the daily race, / The mixing myriads of thy setting beam."
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Date: 1732
"Bind up bold Thought, in Slumber's silky Chain, / Since all we act, and all we know, is vain."
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Date: 1735-6
"Snatch'd by these wonders to that world where thought / Unfetter'd ranges, Fancy's magic hand / Led me anew o'er all the solemn scene, / Still in the mind's pure eye more solemn dress'd."
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Date: 1735-6
"The Persian fetters, that inthrall'd the mind, / Were turn'd to formal and apparent chains."
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Date: 1735-6
"Britons! be firm!--nor let corruption sly / Twine round your heart indissoluble chains!"
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Date: 1735-6
"The steel of Brutus burst the grosser bonds / By Cæsar cast o'er Rome; but still remain'd / The soft enchanting fetters of the mind, / And other Cæsars rose."
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