Date: 1735
"Affection is the Chain of grateful Minds."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1739
"Ye happy minds, that free from mortal chains, / Possess the realms where boundless pleasure reigns, / That feel the force of those immortal fires, / And reach the bliss, to which my soul aspires."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1742
"Not all the chains that tyrants use / Shall bind their souls to vice."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Yet not by all / Those lying forms which fancy in the brain / Engenders, are the kindling passions driven, / To guilty deeds; nor reason bound in chains, / That vice alone may lord it: oft adorn'd / With solemn pageants, folly mounts the throne, / And plays her idiot-anticks, like a queen. / A t...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Has thy constant heart refus'd / The silken fetters of delicious ease?"
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)