Date: 1713, 1734
"We are chained to a body, that is to say, our perceptions are connected with corporeal motions."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1714
"Well then, I own my Heart has broke your Chains. / Patient I bore the painful Bondage long, / At length my generous Love disdains your Tyranny."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
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: 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."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)