Date: 1732

"Bind up bold Thought, in Slumber's silky Chain, / Since all we act, and all we know, is vain."

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1702 [1735, 1779, 1779-80, 1790]

"O generous Sympathy, that binds / In Chains unseen the bravest Minds!"

— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)

Date: 1735

"Affection is the Chain of grateful Minds."

— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)

Date: w. before June 1735?

"Let vows or benefits the vulgar bind, / Such ties can never chain th' intrepid mind."

— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)

Date: w. 1736, 1749

"Why should I drag along this life I hate, / Without one thought to mitigate the weight? / Whence this mysterious bearing to exist, / When every joy is lost, and every hope dismissed? / In chains and darkness wherefore should I stay, / And mourn in prison, while I keep the key?"

— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)

Date: November 9, 1779

"Thus, conscience freed from ev'ry clog, / Mahometans eat up the hog."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1782

"He [the slave] feels his body's bondage in his mind, / Puts off his generous nature, and, to suit / His manners with his fate, puts on the brute."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1782

"The pride of letter'd ignorance, that binds / In chains of error our accomplish'd minds, / That decks with all the splendour of the true, / A false religion, is unknown to you."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: June, 1788

"Minds are never to be sold"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1789?

"Shorn of her beams and fetter'd by her thought, / The fallen nymph the caves of Sadness sought."

— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)