Date: 1700
"No shackling Rhyme chain'd the free Poets mind; / Majestick was his Style, and unconfin'd."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1703
"Kings may our Hands with Iron Fetters bind, / With Chains severer, you secure the Mind."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1703
"Kings may our Hands with Iron Fetters bind, / With Chains severer, you secure the Mind."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1703
"So low it [my Condition] sinks me, by my Stile you'll find, / My Body's less in bondage than my Mind."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1703
"Man in himself a little World contains / A Soul not subject or to Bonds or Chains."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1707, 1710
"No shackling Rhyme chain'd the free Poet's mind, / Majestick was His Style, and unconfin'd."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1712
"She [the soul] does her Godlike Liberty secure: / Her Right and high Prerogative maintains, / Impatient of the Yoke, and scorns coercive Chains."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)