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Date: 1718
"Pierce this treacherous Heart, which Vice so long has held in Chains."
preview | full record— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"You see, my Lord, said he with a Sigh, that I have put it out of her Power to triumph over my Weakness, for I confess my Heart still wears her Chains; but e'er my Eyes or Tongue betray to her the shameful Bondage, these Hands should tear them out."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736
"To live without Restraint, is to live indeed, cry'd she, and I no longer wonder, that the free Mind finds it so difficult to yield to those Fetters, Priests and Philosophers would bind it in, and which were never forged by, nor are consistent with Reason."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
